Permanent supportive housing: Evaluating the evidence for improving health outcomes among people experiencing chronic homelessness

National Academies of Sciences, Medicine Division… - 2018 - books.google.com
Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The
problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years …

Harm reduction outcomes and practices in housing first: a mixed-methods systematic review

N Kerman, A Polillo, G Bardwell, S Gran-Ruaz… - Drug and alcohol …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Harm reduction is a central tenet of Housing First. As the intervention has been
shown to stably house people experiencing chronic homelessness across the lifespan with …

No digital divide? Technology use among homeless adults

H Rhoades, SL Wenzel, E Rice… - Journal of Social …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Homeless adults experience increased risk of negative health outcomes, and technology-
based interventions may provide an opportunity for improving health in this population …

Mortality among the homeless: causes and meteorological relationships

J Romaszko, I Cymes, E Dragańska, R Kuchta… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background The homeless constitute a subpopulation particularly exposed to atmospheric
conditions, which, in the temperate climate zone, can result in both cold and heat stress …

[HTML][HTML] Long‐term effects of homelessness on mortality: A 15‐year Australian cohort study

RJ Seastres, J Hutton, R Zordan, G Moore… - Australian and New …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To examine the effect of homelessness on mortality. Methods This 15‐year
retrospective longitudinal cohort study compared mortality outcomes of homeless and non …

[PDF][PDF] Characterizing people experiencing homelessness and trends in homelessness using population-level emergency department visit data in Ontario, Canada

S Strobel, I Burcul, JH Dai, Z Ma, S Jamani… - Health …, 2021 - researchgate.net
Background Data on people experiencing homelessness often come from time-and labour-
intensive cross-sectional counts and surveys from selected samples. This study uses …

Housing First and harm reduction: a rapid review and document analysis of the US and Canadian open-access literature

DP Watson, V Shuman, J Kowalsky… - Harm reduction …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Housing First is an evidence-based practice intended to serve
chronically homeless individuals with co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use …

[PDF][PDF] Life and death at the margins of society: the mortality of the US homeless population

BD Meyer, A Wyse, I Logani - 2023 - aeaweb.org
This paper examines the relationship between extreme socioeconomic disadvantage and
poor health by providing the first detailed and accurate picture of mortality patterns among …

[PDF][PDF] Ending rough sleeping: What works? An international evidence review

P Mackie, S Johnsen, J Wood - 2017 - researchportal.hw.ac.uk
The ongoing need for people to sleep rough on the streets of the UK is indicative of an
unacceptable societal failure and recent homelessness projections1 suggest that the scale …

Housing first: Lessons from the United States and challenges for Australia

SG Kertesz, G Johnson - Australian Economic Review, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Efforts to end long‐term homelessness have embraced a Housing First approach. Housing
First emphasises rapid placement of clients into independent, permanent accommodation …