No Door to Lock: Victimization Among Homeless and Marginally Housed Persons

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2492-2499

  Kushel, Margot B ^a   Evans, Jennifer L ^b   Perry, Sharon ^c   Robertson, Marjorie J ^d   Moss, Andrew R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSAULT; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOMELESSNESS; HOUSING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL CRIME; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HOUSING; RISK FACTORS; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0242507539     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.20.2492     Document Type: Review

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