Dealing with the disadvantaged--single homeless, are we doing enough?
| Autor: | A.K. Maitra |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Transients and Migrants medicine.medical_specialty Health Services Needs and Demand business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Alcohol abuse Single Person General Medicine medicine.disease United Kingdom Disadvantaged Hospitalization Hospital treatment Socioeconomic Factors Cultural Deprivation Medicine Humans Female Comprehensive Health Care business Psychiatry Socioeconomic status |
| Zdroj: | Public health. 96(3) |
| ISSN: | 0033-3506 |
| Popis: | Seventy-three single homeless patients were compared with a randomly selected control group of 75 home-based patients, matched for age, who were treated during a 4-month period. It was noted that the single homeless were predominantly male, unemployed, unmarried or divorced or separated, and not registered with any general practitioner. Their medical needs were, in the main, caused by alcohol abuse, overdoses of drugs and psychiatric illness. Although the hospital treatment of this group of patients was no different from that of any other group of patients with similar illnesses, their comprehensive care should be based on a wider socioeconomic approach. |
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