Health care needs and services utilization among sheltered and unsheltered Michigan homeless

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-18

  Douglass, Richard L ^a   Torres, Roberto E ^a   Surfus, Paula ^a   Krinke, Barbara ^a   Dale, Lori ^a  

^a EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0033071796     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2010.0755     Document Type: Article

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