Risk factors for becoming homeless among a cohort of veterans who served in the era of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2013, Pages

  Metraux, Stephen ^a,b   Clegg, Limin X ^a   Daigh, John D ^a   Culhane, Dennis P ^a,c   Kane, Vincent ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; WAR; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; MENTAL DISEASE; STATISTICS;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 84888229876     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301432     Document Type: Article

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