Clinical Practice

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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Healing Hands: Spirituality as a Clinical Tool: Care for the Homeless Mentally Ill

Of the half-million or more people in America who are homeless on any night of the year, approximately one-third have a serious mental illness.1 The proportion is even higher for people living outside shelters.2 At least half of seriously mentally ill adults who experience homelessness also have a sub- stance use disorder; schizophrenia, mood disorders

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Healing Hands: Operation Safety Net: Outreach to Unsheltered Homeless People

To “reach out and touch someone” who is chronically homeless requires more than a phone call, flyer or public service announcement. Successful outreach to “on-the-street” homeless people entails even more than outstationing clinicians in emergency shelters, and can extend beyond the reach of mobile medical vans. Providers of health care to unsheltered homeless people are

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Healing Hands: Breaking the Cycle of Family Homelessness Through Intensive Case Management

Dr. Peter Sherman, a pediatrician and Medical Director for the New York Children’s Health Project, sees many patients from New York City homeless shelters. We asked Dr. Sherman to share his thoughts about treating homeless children, the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in the United States. Approximately 40% of homeless people are families

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