Correlates of early onset and chronicity of homelessness in a large urban homeless population

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 186, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 393-400

  North, Carol S ^a   Pollio, David E ^b   Smith, Elizabeth M ^a   Spitznagel, Edward L ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; ONSET AGE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ALCOHOLISM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MISSOURI; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031926860     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199807000-00002     Document Type: Article

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