Cardiovascular Disease

• Heart of the Matter: Managing and Preventing Cardiovascular Disease (Aug 2005)
• Heart of the Matter: Hypertension & Homelessness (Apr 2001)

• Adapted clinical guidelines:
  Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia, and
  Heart Failure
• Hypertension & Homelessness: What
  Interferes with Treatment

Diabetes

• Diabetes: Health Care’s Burgeoning Beast (Aug 2007)
• Diabetes Care: Old Challenges, New Strategies (Oct 1999)

• Diabetes Mellitus resources
• Diabetes and homelessness

Disability

• Dealing with Disability: Cognitive Impairments & Homelessness (Mar 2003)
• Dealing with Disability: Physical Impairments and Homelessness (Oct 2002)

• Disability resources
• Cognitive Impairments

End-of-Life Care

• The Clinician's role in helping homeless people die with dignity (Feb 2004)

• Premature Mortality in Homeless Populations

Exposure Related Conditions

• Exposure-Related Conditions: Symptoms and Prevention Strategies (Dec 2007)

• Cold-related injuries
• Heat-related conditions

Infectious Diseases

• Homeless People at Higher Risk for CA-MRSA, HIV and TB    (Dec 2006)
• Chronic Hepatitis C: Silent Intruder, Insidious Threat (Mar 1999)
• Tuberculosis & Homelessness: Metaphor for Our Time (Jan 1999)

• Chlamydial & Gonococcal Infections
• Communicable diseases
• HIV/AIDS
• Human Papilloma Virus
• Tuberculosis

Kidney Disease

• Kidney Disease: Prevention & Early Detection of a Silent Killer (April 2010)

• Kidney disease and dialysis

Liver Disease

• The Specter of Liver Disease (Dec 2008)

• Case Report: Chronic Liver Disease with Aplastic Anemia
• Hepatitis resources

Oral Health Care

• Pediatric Oral Health: What Every HCH Provider Should Know (Oct 2007)
• Filling the Gaps in Dental Care (Jun 2003)

• Oral Health

Palliative Care

• Pain Management: Reducing Disparities for Homeless Patients  (Oct 2004)

• Pain Management

Parasites & Infestations

• Bugs That Bite: Helping Homeless Patients and Shelter Staff Cope (Feb 2005)

• Lice
• Maggots (Myiasis)
• Pinworm
• Ringworm
• Scabies

Prescription Drugs

• Prescriptions for Homeless Patients Present Financial/ Medical Challenges (Apr 2004)
• Safely Using Medications Past the Expiration Date (Nov 1998)

• Prescription Drugs
• Antibiotics, proper use of

Respiratory Diseases

• Short of Breath: A Winter's Tale of Asthma, COPD & Homelessness (Dec 2000)

• Adapted clinical guidelines: Asthma

Wound Care

• Wound Care Difficult for Homeless Patients and Providers (Jun 2004)

Complementary
& Alternative Therapies

• The Presence of Spirituality in Healing (Aug 2008)
• Use of Complementary & Alternative Therapies in Homeless Health Care (Jun 2008)
• Lessons for Clinicians from Traditional Healers (Aug 1999)

• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)

Behavioral Change

• Eliciting Behavioral Change: Tools for HCH Clinicians (Jun 2000)

• Stages of Change
• Motivational Interviewing

Co-occurring Disorders

• Caring for Clients with Comorbid Psychiatric & Medical Illnesses (Dec 2009)
• Meeting the Challenge of Comorbid Mental Illness & Substance Related Disorders (Feb 2009)
• Bridging the Gap: What We Know and Don’t Know about Dual Diagnosis (Jul 1998)

• Mental illness resources
• Substance abuse resources

Mental Health

• Caring for Clients with Comorbid Psychiatric & Medical Illnesses (Dec 2009)
• Which Is It: ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, or PTSD? (Aug 2006)
• Patients with Borderline Personality Disorders Challenge HCH Clinicians (Sep 2003)
• Mental Illness, Chronic Homelessness: An American Disgrace (Oct 2000)
• Protecting the Mental Health of Homeless Children & Youth (Feb 2000)
• Spirituality as a Clinical Tool: Care for the Homeless Mentally Ill (Dec 1998)

• Depression
• Mental illness resources

Substance Use Disorders

• Addiction on the Streets: Clinical Interventions (Oct 2006)
• A Comprehensive Approach to Substance Abuse and Homelessness (Oct 2003)

• Substance abuse resources
• Street Drug resources

Trauma

• Traumatic Brain Injury: Emerging Tools for Assessment and Care (Feb 2008)
• Homelessness & Family Trauma: The Case for Early Intervention (May 2003)
• Trauma & Homelessness (Apr 1999)

• Traumatic Brain Injury Among Homeless Persons
• Other Trauma resources

Children & Youth

• Engaging Adolescents Who Are Homeless in Care (October 2009)
• Mitigating Homeless Children's Risk for Developmental Delay (Apr 2009)
• Pediatric Oral Health: What Every HCH Provider Should Know (Oct 2007)
• Preventing Chronic Homelessness among Youth (Nov 2005)
• Homelessness Challenges Infants' Social-Emotional Development (Jun 2005)
• Protecting the Mental Health of Homeless Children & Youth (Feb 2000)
• Health Care for Homeless Children: A Clinician's Perspective (Oct 1998)

• Homeless Children & Youth
• Homeless young adults ages 18–24: Examining service delivery adaptations

Young Homeless Adults

• Homeless Young Adults Ages 18–24: Examining Service Delivery Adaptations (Oct 2009)

Elderly

• Aging on the Streets (Apr 2008)

• Older Homeless Adults

Hispanic/Latinos

• Paso a Paso: Step by Step Toward Cultural Competence (Jan 2002)

• Cultural and Linguistic Competence

Rural populations

• Hard to Reach: Rural Homelessness & Health Care (Oct 2001)

• Rural Homelessness Health Care (monograph)

Sexual Minorities

• Crossing to Safety: Transgender Health & Homelessness (Jun 2002)

• Meeting the Health Care Needs of Homeless Youth

Single Males

• Single Males: The Homeless Majority
  (Jun 2001)

• Realities of Homelessness

Women

• Pregnant and Homeless (Aug 2001)
• Women's Health Care: Show Me the Way to go Home (Aug 2000)

• Adapted clinical guidelines:
  Reproductive Health Care

Barriers to Care

• Working to Eliminate Barriers to Care for Homeless People (Jun 2010)

• Health Care for Homeless Native Americans
• Guide to Addressing Cultural & Linguistic Competence
• Health Problems & Access Barriers

Case Management

• Case Management For Homeless Clients Who Are Not Obviously Disabled (Feb 2007)

• Case Management resources

Chronic Disease Management

• Health Disparities Collaboratives: Closing the Gap Between Knowledge & Practice
  (Sep 2002)

• Health Disparities Collaboratives
• Chronic Medical Diseases in Homeless Populations

Discharge Planning

• Tools to Help Clinicians Achieve Effective Discharge Planning (Oct 2008)

• Discharge Planning resources

Emergency Preparedness

• Disaster Planning Requires Time, Resources, Collaboration (Aug 2004)

• Disaster Planning for People Experiencing Homelessness

Information Systems

• Electronic Information Systems in Homeless Health Care (Apr 2002)

• Using an EMR to Support Diabetes Collaborative Reporting

Integrated Services

• Integrating Primary & Behavioral Health Care for Homeless People (May 2006)
• Integrated, Interdisciplinary Models of Care (Aug 1999)

• Interdisciplinary Models of Care

Medical Respite Care

• Medical Respite Care: An Integral Part of the Homeless Care Continuum (Apr 2007)
• Respite Care: A Safe Place to Heal (Jun 1999)

• Medical Respite Care for People Without Stable Housing
• Respite Care Providers Network

Outcomes Measurement

• Are We Making a Difference? (Feb 2001)
• Measuring Outcomes, Step by Step (Aug 1999)

• Developing Outcome Measures to Evaluate HCH Services
• Clinical performance improvement measures

Outreach

• Operation Safety Net: Outreach to Unsheltered Homeless People (Nov 1998)

• A Curriculum for Training HCH Outreach Workers
• Mobile Health Care for Homeless People
• Shelter Health
• Other Outreach resources

Research

• Research in HCH Settings: Advancing Quality in Primary Care (Jun 09)

• HCH Practice-Based Research Network
• PBRN Research Proposal Form

Workplace Violence

• Workplace Violence: What You Need to Know (Feb 2010)

• Safety in the workplace
• A Typology for Interpersonal Violence

Avoiding Burnout

• Coping with Stress, Creating & Maintaining Hope (Dec 1999)
• Renewal & Resiliency in Our Work (Feb 2002)

• Caring for the Caregiver

HCH Clinicians’ Network

• The HCH Clinicians' Network: Eight Years and Counting (Dec 2002)

• About the Network

Staffing

• HCH Staff Recruitment & Retention: Unique Problems, Innovative Solutions (Jun 2007)
• The Challenges of Supervision in HCH: Helping Staff Succeed (Feb 2006)
• Nurses: On the Front Lines of Health Care for Homeless People (Apr 2005)

• Credentialing and Privileging
• Clinical Volunteers

Barriers to Care

• Working to Eliminate Barriers to Care for Homeless People (Jun 2010)

• Health Care Reform

Housing

• Relationship between Housing and Health Care (Aug 2009)

• Advocacy and Policy Resourcea
• Policy Statement on Housing and Homelessness
• Program Helps Reduce Hospital And Emergency Department Use Among Homeless Adults With Chronic
  Illnesses
• Organizational Change: Adopting a Housing First Approach

Incarceration & Homelessness

• Keeping Homeless People Out of the Justice System: The HCH Role (Dec 2004)

• Relationships between HCH Projects and Jails
• Incarceration, Homelessness & Health

Integrating Service & Advocacy

• Clinicians as Advocates (Apr 2000)

• Advocacy & Policy Resources

Managed Care

• Managing to Care for Special Needs Populations (Aug 1999)

• Can Managed Care Work for Homeless People? Guidance for State Medicaid Programs
• Searching for the Right Fit: Homelessness & Medicaid Managed Care

Preventing
& Ending Homelessness

• Closing the Door to Homelessness: How Clinicians Can Help (Nov 2005)
• Supportive Housing Helps Break Cycle of Homelessness  (Dec 2003)

• Defining and Funding the Support in Permanent Supportive Housing