Access to primary care services remains difficult for people experiencing homelessness as a
result of innumerable barriers, both structural and economic.(1, 2) Street homeless men and …

Homelessness is a neglected crisis throughout the United States. In Los Angeles (LA)
County, nearly 59,000 residents are homeless, and the vast majority are unsheltered. An …

Jim, a Korean War veteran in his seventies, lives in a '79 Cadillac. Unable to afford housing,
his hygiene is quite poor; access to water is limited to restaurant bathrooms. Jim has severe …

Introduction: An estimated 5800 to 46,500 lives are lost due to homelessness each year.
Experiencing homelessness and poor health are cyclically related, with one reinforcing the …

Homelessness affects men, women, and children of all races and ethnicities. On any given
night, more than 610,000 persons in the United States are homeless; a little more than one …

Robert Frost once described home as “the place where, when you have to go there,/They
have to take you in.” 1 This is precisely what the homeless lack: not only a home of their own …

There is ample evidence that homelessness is associated with high rates of morbidity and
mortality. Street Medicine seeks to eliminate these disparities by providing healthcare on the …

Learning from medicine's past may be important. Effective primary and preventive care for
homeless people is possible if physicians are willing to venture out from traditional hospital …

OBJECTIVE: The homeless are more likely than other poor and vulnerable populations to
manifest serious health problems. Early research focused on needs assessments of this …

Abstract The authors describe Charlottesville Health Access (CHA), an initiative to get
people who are homeless into the health care system. A community homeless shelter …