The epidemiology of the homeless population and its impact on an urban emergency department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1051-1055

  D'Amore, Jason ^a   Hung, Oliver ^b   Chiang, William ^a   Goldfrank, Lewis ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Epidemiology; Homeless; Public health; Urban medicne

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0034753798     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb01114.x     Document Type: Article

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