ABSTRACT

Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision is the first known publication in which service providers examine the particular difficulties encountered by homeless people in gaining access to healthcare, both in Britain and the US. Specific chapters examine the complex issue of mental health and homelessness, responses to single homeless people with drink-related problems and the particular problems experienced by young single homeless people and homeless women.
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chapter |11 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|19 pages

Access to health care

chapter 4|23 pages

Mental health and homelessness

chapter 5|19 pages

Alcohol and single homelessness

An outreach approach

chapter 6|13 pages

Youth homelessness and health care

chapter 8|12 pages

Research or campaigning?

Raising the profile of health care for single homeless people

chapter 9|18 pages

The American experience

chapter |7 pages

Conclusion