Health and health care disparities among homeless women

Women and Health

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 719-736

  Teruya, Cheryl ^a   Longshore, Douglas ^a   Andersen, Ronald M ^b   Arangua, Lisa ^c   Nyamathi, Adeline ^c   Leake, Barbara ^c   Gelberg, Lillian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Health; Health care; Homeless women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HISPANIC; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; NEGRO; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 78650291338     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03630242.2010.532754     Document Type: Article

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