Clinical Practice

Healing Hands: Pregnant and Homeless: Risk Reduction for Substance Abusing Mothers

In this issue of Healing Hands, we examine health risks and barriers to reducing them experienced by homeless women and their children, during and following pregnancy. The lead article addresses the greatest challenge reported by Health Care for the Homeless clinicians in caring for these women: alleviating substance abuse problems, to protect maternal and fetal […]

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Healing Hands: Pregnant and Homeless

In this issue of Healing Hands, we examine health risks and barriers to reducing them experienced by homeless women and their children, during and following pregnancy. The lead article addresses the greatest challenge reported by Health Care for the Homeless clinicians in caring for these women: alleviating substance abuse problems, to protect maternal and fetal

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Organizing Health Services for Homeless People: A Practical Guide

Author: McMurray-Avila M – See Part IV, Service Delivery Strategies, Case Management Services Part IV discusses service delivery strategies based on the experience of existing HCH projects. This section describes specific elements necessary for provision of services in the following areas: medical care, substance abuse services, mental health services, case management, outreach, dental care, respite

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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: Eliciting Behavior Change: Tools for HCH Clinicians

The following article summarizes currently recommended strategies for eliciting health-related behavior change which clinicians and their homeless clients are finding useful. Subsequent articles focus on the experience of individual practitioners in dealing with some of the most critical and persistent health problems their homeless patients face to which lifestyle modification is at least part of

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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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