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Healing Hands: Hard to Reach: Rural Homelessness & Health Care

This issue of Healing Hands examines obstacles to health care encountered by people who first experience homelessness in small communities and remote rural areas of the United States. The following articles briefly explain the causes of rural homelessness and how unstably housed people in rural areas differ from their urban counterparts. In addition, they highlight […]

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Abstract (full text available for purchase): Counting the Rural Homeless Population: Methodological Dilemmas |

One important product of this National Institute of Mental Health-funded study is the successful adaptation of methods for field research on homelessness in rural settings. This article identifies the design dilemmas and the process issues in rural studies that are applicable to social work research in rural environments. Download Research (PDF)

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