OBJECTIVES Cost-effective programs are needed to assist homeless persons with severe mental illness in their transition from shelters to community living. The authors investigated the cost-effectiveness of the critical time intervention program, a time-limited adaptation of intensive case management, which has been shown to significantly reduce recurrent homelessness among men with severe menta...

This experiment was conducted at Debre Zeit and Akaki during 2004-2005 cropping season on F2-derived F4 bulk families of three crosses, viz, DZ-01-974 x DZ-01-2786, DZ-01-974 x DZ-Cr-37 and Alba x Kaye Murri. To estimate the correlations and path coefficients between yield and yield components, 63 F4 families were taken randomly from each of the three crosses. The 189 F4 families, five parents ...

1 The goods and services are broken into eight major categories: 1. Food and beverages, including full-service meals and snacks; 2. Housing; 3. Apparel, including jewelry; 4. Transportation, including air fares, fuels, and vehicle insurance; 5. Medical care; 6. Recreation, including sports equipment and pets; 7. Education and Communication, including tuition and telephone services; 8. Other goo...

Adherence to antipsychotic medication is a significant challenge among homeless patients. No experimental trials have investigated the impact of Housing First on adherence among patients with schizophrenia. We investigated whether Housing First in congregate and scattered-site configurations resulted in superior adherence compared to usual care. Adult participants (n = 165) met criteria for hom...

The promotion of choice and control for older people is a policy priority for social care services in the United Kingdom and is at the heart of recent drives to personalise services. Increasingly, we are seeing a move away from institutionalised care (e.g. in care homes) towards enablement, with more services being delivered in community-based settings. Extra care housing has been promoted as a...

The Retail Price Index is by far the most widely used measure of inflation in the United Kingdom.2 Its components include an index of interest payments on home mortgages, which has a weight of 4.2 percent. Mortgages in the United Kingdom are predominantly at floating— rather than at fixed—interest rates. The index of mortgage interest payments is calculated using a long-term weighted average of...