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Healing Hands: Heart of the Matter: Hypertension & Homelessness

Cardiovascular (CV) disease is the leading cause of premature death and permanent disability in the United States. Most apparent in its acute manifestations (heart failure, heart attack, stroke, end-stage renal disease), CV disease can be nearly invisible, though insidious, in its chronic form hypertension (high blood pressure), which affects nearly one in four adult Americans […]

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Healing Hands: Mental Illness, Chronic Homelessness: An American Disgrace

It is an outrage that here in America — the wealthiest country on earth in the year 2000 — so many people who suffer from mental illness remain homeless. Although severe mental illness has been documented in less than one-third of our homeless population, these individuals are among the most vulnerable, not only to multiple

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Healing Hands: Protecting the Mental Health of Homeless Children & Youth

Among the most vulnerable of persons without a safe and dependable place to call home are those who have not yet reached physical or emotional maturity. The following articles focus on mental and behavioral health issues for homeless children and youth living with one parent or none — doubled up with rel- atives or friends,

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Healing Hands: Integrated, Interdisciplinary Models of Care

Integrated, interdisciplinary care is essential to address the multiple and complex health problems that are endemic to a significant por- tion of the homeless population. Navigating fragmented systems of care is often impossible for homeless people, particularly those who are ill. Federally funded Health Care for the Homeless projects were created to provide the coordinated,

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Healing Hands: Trauma & Homelessness

Trauma — physical, sexual and emotional — is both a cause and a consequence of homelessness. Numerous studies conducted dur- ing the past decade identify domestic violence as a primary cause of homelessness in the United States, particularly for women and chil- dren, who now comprise approximately 40% of the homeless popula- tion. Between 22%

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Healing Hands: Chronic Hepatitis C: Silent Intruder, Insidious Threat (1999)

A great irony of human ecology is that whether homeless or not, people are themselves home to legions of microbe families which flourish at their hosts’ expense. Among the more insidious of these uninvited guests is the hepatitis C virus (HCV), first identified as a distinct, blood borne pathogen in 1988. HCV can lie dormant

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Healing Hands: Chronic Hepatitis C: Silent Intruder, Insidious Threat (1999)

Agreat irony of human ecology is that whether homeless or not, people are themselves home to legions of microbe families which flourish at their hosts’ expense. Among the more insidious of these uninvited guests is the hepatitis C virus (HCV), first identified as a distinct, blood-borne pathogen in 1988. HCV can lie dormant for decades

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Healing Hands: Tuberculosis & Homelessness: Metaphor for Our Time (1999)

Tuberculosis is predominantly a disease of poverty and crowding. Homeless shelters, where individuals live cheek by jowl, often for months on end, have been described as the equivalent of nineteenth century tenements. Their residents can be unwitting vectors of air- borne pathogens such as Myobacterium tuberculosis. Download Research (PDF)

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