Use of Faith-Based Social Service Providers in a Representative Sample of Urban Homeless Women

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 371-382

  Heslin, Kevin C ^a   Andersen, Ronald M ^b   Gelberg, Lillian ^c  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UCLA Department of Health Services

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Homelessness; Policy; Religious beliefs; Social work; Utilization; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIGION; SAMPLE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES; CATERING SERVICE; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH SERVICE; HOUSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOOD SERVICES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HOUSING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOS ANGELES; POVERTY; RELIGION; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0142182396     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jurban/jtg051     Document Type: Article

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