Episodic illness, chronic disease, and health care use among homeless persons in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, 2007

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-24

  Wiersma, Petra ^a   Epperson, Scott ^a   Terp, Sophie ^a   Lacourse, Sylvia ^a   Finton, Bob ^a   Drenzek, Cherie ^a   Arnold, Kathryn ^a   Finelli, Lyn ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic illness; Episodic illness; Homeless population; Influenza vaccination; Pneumococcal vaccination

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; EYE INFECTION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MYALGIA; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASH; RHINORRHEA; SORE THROAT; THORAX PAIN; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VOMITING;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HOMELESS PERSONS; HOUSING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149187938     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181c46f79     Document Type: Article

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