How did a Housing First intervention improve health and social outcomes among homeless adults with mental illness in Toronto? Two-year outcomes from a randomised trial

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  O'Campo, Patricia ^a,b   Stergiopoulos, Vicky ^a,b   Nir, Pam ^c   Levy, Matthew ^b   Misir, Vachan ^a   Chum, Antony ^d   Arbach, Bouchra ^c   Nisenbaum, Rosane ^a,b   To, Matthew J ^a   Hwang, Stephen W ^a,e  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Cota ^*  (Canada)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANADA; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HOMELESS PERSON; HOUSING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; CANADA; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HOUSING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL WORK; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85014731468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/BMJOPEN-2015-010581     Document Type: Article

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