Homelessness
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This review aims to synthesize the evidence related to the health promotion actions among people experiencing homelessness and the barriers and facilitators they experience in accessing health-promoting information and services.
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Gender-diverse youth experience twice the risk for homelessness as their same-age cisgender peers and report experiencing discrimination in homeless shelters and supported housing.
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Community health needs assessments (CHNA) involving qualitative techniques help tailor health services to the specific needs of the population groups for whom they are designed. This study used an ethnographic approach grounded in a social constructivist research paradigm to explore the perspectives of PEH attending a primary care and addiction service in Ireland on their priority health and healthcare needs.
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Even when high-quality, evidence-based social-emotional supports and services are available, accessing them can be challenging, confusing, or impossible for some families, especially for families experiencing homelessness.
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Defining homelessness clearly without reducing the problem’s complexity helps governments frame effective and conscious policies. There is a growing need for a theoretical framework that explores the common ground and generative structure among broad narratives about homelessness.
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The ongoing involvement of homeless former prisoners in crime raises questions about involvement factors. Failure to reintegrate into society frequently results in homeless former prisoners becoming re-involved in crime. In this research, 30 homeless former prisoners, nine Malaysian government agency officers, and nine volunteers were interviewed in this study.
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The present study investigated variation in housing insecurity experiences in a sample of mothers, as well as which risk profiles were most strongly associated with subsequent homelessness.
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Certified peer support specialists (CPSS) are used as a paraprofessional workforce to engage hard-to-reach populations, including people experiencing homelessness. COFindings from this study may have implications for the value of lived and learned knowledge coexisting in organizations serving those who experience homelessness.
