Homeless Veterans: Perspectives on Social Services Use

Social Work

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-30

  Applewhite, Steven Lozano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct services; Homeless veterans; Mental health; Qualitative research; Service use

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VETERAN;

ADULT; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 0030641819     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/42.1.19     Document Type: Article

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