Mental disorder, service use, and barriers to care among 500 homeless people in 3 different urban settings

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1235-1243

  Krausz, Reinhardt Michael ^a,b   Clarkson, Adam F ^b   Strehlau, Verena ^a,b   Torchalla, Iris ^a,b   Li, Kathy ^b   Schuetz, Christian G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR HEALTH EVALUATION AND OUTCOME SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Health services; Homeless persons; Mental disorder; Substance dependence

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84880784570     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-012-0649-8     Document Type: Article

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