Rapidly rising homelessness in the 1980s shocked Americans and led to a flurry of studies, a deluge of news stories …, and to Public Law 100-77, the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of July 1987. The McKinney Act marked the … entrance of the federal government into homelessness policy, which, until then, had been a purely local issue. A dozen years …

addressing the needs of this population and examining the effectiveness of interventions to end homelessness and improve health … who are homeless, with a focus on differences in SQOL (a) between homeless individuals and the general population, (b … mental health, and external variables such as service program type. A literature search was conducted of the online databases …

Political will, imaginative and collaborative solutions from across the spectrum of health and social care providers … are needed to address the needs of homeless individuals. …

homeless people in several South African cities and towns. It was found in some cases that their own or family members' ill-health … homeless shows that systematic health promotion is required and that some health service providers need to be made more aware … of the health needs of the homeless. …

by poverty and homelessness. This study examined African-American homeless and unstably housed youth's interests in …Homeless and unstably housed youth in the U.S. have high rates of unemployment and often rely on survival strategies … that negatively impact their economic, emotional, and physical health. While integrated health and entrepreneurial …

This paper investigates whether childhood conditions affect survival and health, both directly and indirectly through … childhood conditions improve socioeconomic status in adulthood and thus indirectly promote longevity and health at advanced ages …. Combining the direct and indirect effects, the total effects of childhood advantages on survival and health are positive. We …

This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …

While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are … struggling with achieving or sustaining UHC. France is a high-income country where HC is in effect universal. Health …-related costs are covered by a mix of mandatory social health insurance (SHI) and private complementary schemes, while benefit …

gap requires attention. Maldives has made great progress in improving maternal health and has achieved MDG. The total …. Skilled birth attendance is high at 95 percent. Access to maternal health services is fairly equitable by residence and wealth … rise. Maldives has initiated a number of interventions to increase adolescents? needs for sexual and reproductive health …