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Healing Hands: Exposure-Related Conditions: Symptoms & Prevention Strategies

Exposure-related conditions are a constant reality faced by homeless individuals who spend most days and many nights outside. Without shelter against the elements, they are dependent on mild temperatures and dry weather for a tolerable existence. And while some people who live on the streets may have tents or cardboard structures to provide a modicum […]

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Healing Hands: Pediatric Oral Health: What Every HCH Provider Should Know

Although the oral health of most Americans has improved since the1970s, people living in poverty remain at especially high risk for chronic dental disease, and the prevalence of dental caries among children aged 2–5 years has increased during the last decade. Financial barriers to dental care, poor nutrition, lack of awareness of serious health risks

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Healing Hands: Case Management for Homeless Clients Who Are Not Obviously Disabled

Case managers working in Health Care for the Homeless facilitate the stabilization of health, income, and housing for their homeless clients. Some of these individuals are not sufficiently impaired to qualify for Federal disability benefits; many others have disabilities which are masked or which they are not prepared to address. Published research on case management

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Healing Hands: Homeless People at Higher Risk for CA-MRSA, HIV & TB (2006)

Homelessness increases one’s risk for infectious diseases and complicates access and adherence to treatment. Three infectious agents that disproportionately affect homeless populations — community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) — are the focus of this issue of Healing Hands, which highlights recent research on screening, treatment and

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Healing Hands: Homeless People at Higher Risk for CA-MRSA, HIV and TB (2006)

Homelessness increases one’s risk for infectious diseases and complicates access and adherence to treatment. Three infectious agents that disproportionately affect homeless populations — community associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) — are the focus of this issue of Healing Hands, which highlights recent research on screening, treatment

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Healing Hands: Integrating Primary & Behavioral Health Care for Homeless People

Higher incidence, prevalence, and acuity of medical and behavioral problems among people who are homeless warrant the availability of comprehensive medical and behavioral health services. Limited access to mental health specialists, stigma associated with mental illness, and negative health outcomes relat- ed to undiagnosed or untreated behavioral disorders make it incumbent on primary care providers

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Healing Hands: Integrating Primary & Behavioral Health Care for Homeless People

Higher incidence, prevalence, and acuity of medical and behavioral problems among people who are homeless warrant the availability of comprehensive medical and behavioral health services. Limited access to mental health specialists, stigma associated with mental illness, and negative health outcomes related to undiagnosed or untreated behavioral disorders make it incumbent on primary care providers to

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Healing Hands: The Challenges of Supervision in HCH: Helping Staff Succeed

Supervising staff in today’s health care settings is difficult at best. Patients present with complex needs, time and resources are scarce, and managed care requirements exert pressure to do more with less. But supervision in Health Care for the Homeless programs is fraught with a special set of challenges, including the need to oversee staff

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