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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484757403321

Titolo

Clinical management of the homeless patient : social, psychiatric, and medical issues / / Elspeth Cameron Ritchie and Maria D. Llorente (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-70135-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 pages)

Disciplina

362.1086942

Soggetti

Homeless persons - Medical care

Homeless persons - Mental health services

Psychology

Ill-Housed Persons

Social Determinants of Health

Persones sense sostre

Assistència sanitària

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Epidemiology -- Determinants of And Contributors To Homelessness -- Legal/ethical issues -- Excess Police/Justice Involvement -- Excess Ed Resource Use -- Human And Sex Trafficking And Homelessness -- The Housing First Model -- Pathways to Housing -- The VA -- Other -- Efforts To Reduce Justice Reinvolvement: Jail Diversion, Justice Outreach, Justice Re-Entry -- Employment, Job Training, Education -- Deinstitutionalization, Homelessness Among Seriously Mentally Ill, Prevalence Of Psychiatric Illness Among Homeless -- Substance Use Disorders -- Trauma -- Nonadherence to treatment -- Suicide Prevention -- Cognitive impairment/TBI -- Management of the chronic mentally ill and chronically suicidal patient who is in and out of the ER and inpatient all the time -- Diabetes, hypertension, HIV and other STDs, cellulitis, abscesses, arthritis -- Infestations: bed bugs, lice, ant and mosquito bites and associated cellulitis -- Managing these issues



-- A focus on toenails -- Veterans -- Women -- Children -- LGBTQ -- Older Homeless (50-65, 65 to 85 Years).