Poverty and Homelessness
Responsive mental health systems to address the poverty, homelessness and mental illness nexus: The Banyan experience from India
... Background: Mental health has gained prominence as a global public health priority. However, a substantial treat- ment gap persists in many low- and middle-income countries. Within this scenario, the nexus between ...
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Constructing Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals for Medical Cost Data with Censored Observations
... Both poverty and homelessness are key determinants in the utilization of self-care strategies and access to preventative healthcare; this thesis seeks to highlight the strategic behavior[r] ...
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A comparative investigation of policy responses to homelessness in England and Australia
... distributive effort through instruments, rather than expenditure. The authors point out that it is not the poor or disadvantaged who lose out from means testing, but those who come from the higher echelons of income and ...
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Gender and Experiences of Family Homelessness
... however, there are gendered differences in the rates and experiences of mental illness. In particular, women experience higher rates of depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and anxiety (WHO, 2013; Marcus, ...
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The patterns and dynamics of homelessness
... 1986 and 2006 indicate that rates of household crowding, as measured by the CNOS, are highest for Pacific Islander (particularly Tongan), Maori and Asian households (Statistics New Zealand 2012), suggesting that spatial ...
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HOMELESSNESS IN INDIA
... of homelessness, it is vital that there should be construction of 50,000 to 60,000 houses each year in order to make provision of shelter for each one of them by the year ...of poverty, structural ...
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Homelessness in Douglas: it's much more than not having a roof over your head
... that homelessness is the result of a range of inter-related complex risk ...to homelessness include domestic violence, family breakdown, [comprising neglect, conflict, violence and abuse], poverty, ...
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Comment Paper, Germany
... re-housing. Targeted support measures for stimulating and stabilising the re- integration process have proved necessary not only for the transition from being homeless to being a tenant and for the first phase after ...
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Different faces of discrimination: perceived discrimination among homeless adults with mental illness in healthcare settings
... as homelessness, poverty, mental health or substance use problems, ethnicity, race and skin ...or poverty (yes = 1; no = 0), (2) mental health, alco- hol and drug-related issues (yes = 1; no = 0), ...
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Intervening with school age children facing homelessness and substance abuse
... experiencing homelessness is children younger than 9 years of age” ...as: poverty, lack of affordable housing, eviction, personal or relationship factors, substance abuse, mental health difficulties, abuse ...
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Confronting homelessness in the European Union. Social investment package. Commission staff working document. SWD (2013) 42 final, 20 February 2013
... prevent homelessness among those leaving ...prevent homelessness among undocumented ...in poverty and minorities such as Roma who again need different approaches to avoid homelessness or to ...
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Homelessness and rebuilding relationships
... Since St Mungo’s inception nearly forty years ago, some issues have not changed. The breakdown of social support networks through estrangement from partners, parents, siblings, children and friends continues to be a ...
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... Estimating Homelessness: Towards a Methodology for Counting the Home- less in Canada (Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corpora- tion, 1991), ...of homelessness that is ...
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Escaping from homelessness
... However, I was not just personally touched by their stories, I was also fascinated by what these men had to say. They had achieved that rare thing: they had been homeless, three of them had slept rough – literally living ...
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Drug use and barriers to and facilitators of drug treatment for homeless youth
... precede homelessness and eventual substance use, there are strong objections by homeless youth to return to a previous dysfunctional envi- ronment (Adlaf and Zdanowicz 1999; Mallett et al ...
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Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Homelessness : The Humanitarian Crisis and the Homelessness Sector in Europe
... Adequate homelessness services and separate housing services for asylum seekers and refugees are ...If homelessness services are under pressure, it presents a potential risk to the resources available to a ...
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Child poverty: The shocking ins and outs
... Vulnerability rate is extreme for 45.95 percent children and severe for 40.59 percent children. Those children who suffer from extreme form of vulnerability reported that they encounter risks and shocks of myriad forms ...
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The poverty, growth and inequality in Canada
... in poverty reduction (Fosu, 2009; Kalwij and Verschoor, 2007; Ravallion, ...that poverty reduction is strongly associated with growth in average ...on poverty than production ...into poverty ...
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The culture of homelessness: An ethnographic study
... The absence of adequate facilities results in roof/homelessness. That includes inadequate medical/psychiatric care, supported housing, hostels or rehabilitation programmes for substance abusers. The lack of ...
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Effective Treatment for People in Homelessness Rehabilitation (Updated)
... [Mike and Sammy continue to discuss the details of Sammy’s housing needs. Sammy has con- cerns about the neighbors, his privacy, rules that might be imposed on him, and who can access his apartment. Mike is concerned ...
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