Perceptions of health and health service utilization among homeless and housed psychiatric consumer/survivors

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 399-407

  Forchuk, C ^a,b   Brown, S A ^c   Schofield, R ^d   Jensen, E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Regional Mental Health Care   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e York University   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health; Homeless; Housing; Mental health; Policy; Service utilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 43049120682     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: 13652850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01246.x     Document Type: Article

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