Where do people go when they first become homeless? A survey of homeless adults in the USA

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 446-453

  O'Toole, Thomas P ^a,f   Conde Martel, Alicia ^b   Gibbon, Jeanette L ^c   Hanusa, Barbara H ^d   Freyder, Paul J ^e   Fine, Michael J ^f  

^a PROVIDENCE VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^c Maricopa County Department of Public Health   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Salvation Army Public Inebriate Program

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; Help seeking; Homelessness; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL WELFARE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; SOCIAL WELFARE; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34547749973     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2007.00703.x     Document Type: Article

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