Tailoring Care to vulnerable populations by incorporating social determinants of health: The veterans health administration's "homeless patient aligned care team" program

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  O'Toole, Thomas P ^a   Johnson, Erin E ^a   Aiello, Riccardo ^a   Kane, Vincent ^a,b   Pape, Lisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AMONG VETERANS   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HOMELESS PERSON; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VETERAN; VETERANS HEALTH; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS; VETERANS HEALTH; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84963668011     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd13.150567     Document Type: Article

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