نتایج جستجو برای: homeless people

تعداد نتایج: 364832  

Journal: :The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners 2005
Charlotte Ne Tompkins Nat Mj Wright Lesley Jones

BACKGROUND Increasing numbers of injecting drug users are presenting to primary care and a growing number of general practices are specifically providing care for homeless people. Injecting drug users are at the greatest risk of hepatitis C infection and homeless drug misusers, because of their drug-taking behaviour and patterns, have been identified as being at greater risk of harm of blood-bo...

Journal: :Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 1996
P Brouqui P Houpikian H T Dupont P Toubiana Y Obadia V Lafay D Raoult

Trench fever is caused by Bartonella (Rochalimaea) quintana, a small gram-negative rod that is transmitted by body lice. Recently, B. quintana infections in homeless patients have been reported in the United States and Europe. From October 1993 to October 1994, the seroprevalence of antibodies to B. quintana was assessed by indirect immunofluorescence in a prospective study of 221 nonhospitaliz...

Journal: :CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 2001
S W Hwang

Homelessness affects tens of thousands of canadians and has important health implications. Homeless people are at increased risk of dying prematurely and suffer from a wide range of health problems, including seizures, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, musculoskeletal disorders, tuberculosis, and skin and foot problems. Homeless people also face significant barriers that impair their acces...

2016
Cecilia Håkanson Joakim Öhlén

Multiple illnesses are common in all homeless populations. While most previous studies have focused on experiences of mental illness, there is a scarcity of studies about experiences of bodily illness among people who are homeless. This study aimed to explore illness narratives of people who are homeless, and how homelessness as a social context shapes the experience of multiple and/or advancin...

Journal: :CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 2004
Angela M Cheung Stephen W Hwang

BACKGROUND Homeless people are at high risk for illness and have higher death rates than the general population. Patterns of mortality among homeless men have been investigated, but less attention has been given to mortality rates among homeless women. We report mortality rates and causes of death in a cohort of women who used homeless shelters in Toronto. We also compare our results with those...

2017
Solina Richter Vera Caine Hiroko Kubota Margaret Danko

Becoming homeless is a convergence of many individual vulnerabilities and structural factors. Homelessness has serious implications for the health of individuals and populations [1]. In the North American context, and globally the majority of people who are homeless are men (71%); when women are homeless they are more likely to be homeless with children [2,3]. In recent years, the number of Can...

Journal: :The Annual review of sociology 2005

Journal: :Japanese Sociological Review 2006

Journal: :Deutsches Aerzteblatt Online 2017

Journal: :The Lancet Public Health 2020

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