In Marin County in the San Francisco Bay Area, County and community-based organizations collaborate to provide services for people experiencing homelessness using a Housing First approach. The closely connected network was alarmed by a perceived increase in deaths among people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic; many of these deaths seemed to involve substance use. This publication details their work to find mortality rates and causes of death among people experiencing homelessness and compare the data with the county’s general population by using a person-matching method.
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Clinical Practice, Mortality, Research and Data