نتایج جستجو برای: homeless

تعداد نتایج: 4358  

2011
Takahiro Tabuchi Toshio Takatorige Yukio Hirayama Nobuaki Nakata Shigeyoshi Harihara Akira Shimouchi Koshiro Fujita Hiroko Yoshida Yoshitaka Tamura Takayuki Nagai Tomoshige Matsumoto Tetsuya Takashima Hiroyasu Iso

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem. The Airin district of Osaka City has a large population of homeless persons and caregivers and is estimated to be the largest TB-endemic area in the intermediate-prevalence country, Japan. However, there have been few studies of homeless persons and caregivers. The objective of this study is to detect active TB and to assess the pre...

2012
Margit Kaldmäe

Dear Sir, A recently published article in The Lancet (1), focusing on psychiatric disorders and mortality among people in homeless shelters in Denmark, provided through a register-based large-cohort study very interesting, more detailed information and knowledge in this field. The Danish data are to some extent in harmony with our own published data from Estonia (2), but there are some discrepa...

2014
Mushir Ali

Present work is an attempt to describe the socio-economic status of homeless people. It was conducted in Bahir Dar city of Amhara region with objectives to identify demographic characteristics and socio-economic status of the homeless population, and to describe problems faced by homeless people. On basis of random sampling four kebeles were selected where using purposive sampling 120 homeless ...

Journal: :Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 2013
Anne C Krendl Joseph M Moran Nalini Ambady

The manner in which disparate affective responses shape attitudes toward other individuals has received a great deal of attention in neuroscience research. However, the malleability of these affective responses remains largely unexplored. The perceived controllability of a stigma (whether or not the bearer of the stigma is perceived as being responsible for his or her condition) has been found ...

Journal: :Paediatrics & child health 2011
Dina M Kulik Stephen Gaetz Cathy Crowe Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones

Homelessness has reached epidemic proportions in Canada. Canadian children and adolescents are the most vulnerable because youth comprise the fastest growing segment of the homeless population. A systematic literature review was undertaken using MEDLINE, Web of Science and the Homeless Hub (www.homelesshub.ca) to encompass the time frame from January 1990 to June 2009. The following terms were ...

2012
John M. cumming Gene W. Gloeckner Andrea L. Taylor

After interviewing homeless high school students, the research team in a Colorado school district discovered that many students had not revealed their true living conditions (homelessness) to anyone in the school district. This research team developed an anonymous survey written around the homeless categories identified in the McKinney-Vento federal legislation. Results revealed students who id...

Journal: :Western journal of nursing research 2001
D G Anderson M A Imle

Naturalistic inquiry was used to compare the characteristics of families of origin of homeless women with never-homeless women. The women's experiences in their families of origin were explored during in-depth interviews using Lofland and Lofland's conceptions of meanings, practices, episodes, roles, and relationships to guide the analysis. The two groups were similar with respect to family abu...

Journal: :Journal of water and health 2016
Sayed Mohammad Nazim Uddin Vicky Walters J C Gaillard Sanjida Marium Hridi Alice McSherry

This short communication provides insights into water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for homeless people through a scoping study conducted in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It investigates homeless access to WASH through the lens of a rights-based approach. It demonstrates that homeless people's denial of their right to WASH reflects their marginal position in society and an unequal distribution of power a...

2015
Christopher R. Fee CHRISTOPHER FEE Christopher Fee

U.S. government efforts to help homeless veterans in America are not enough. When I first began grappling with homelessness issues in my local community quite a number of years ago, Dave, then-director of the local homeless shelter in our small town, told me a story that illustrates some of the special circumstances faced by homeless veterans in America. Dave said a community of homeless vets h...

Journal: :Evaluation and program planning 2014
Anamika Barman-Adhikari Eric Rice

Little is known about the factors associated with use of employment services among homeless youth. Social network characteristics have been known to be influential in motivating people's decision to seek services. Traditional theoretical frameworks applied to studies of service use emphasize individual factors over social contexts and interactions. Using key social network, social capital, and ...

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