Citation

Karadzhov D. J. Psychiatr. Ment. Health Nurs. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Centre for Health Policy, International Public Policy Institute, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/jpm.12575

PMID

31693782

Abstract

Persistently high levels of homelessness are a symptom of deeply unequal societies. The disproportionately adverse health-related outcomes observed in homeless populations in developed countries- including their high morbidity, mortality and disability rates-constitute a public health and a human rights emergency (Aldridge et al., 2018). Homelessness is often aptly conceptualised as the adverse socio-economic sequela of concomitant forms of deep social exclusion such as poverty, housing exclusion, institutionalisation, interpersonal violence, substance use and others. Homelessness and housing exclusion can be profoundly disruptive biographical experiences that emerge from intersecting axes of inequality.

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Language: en