A mobile surgery for single homeless people in London.

Ramsden, Sophie; Nyiri, P.; Bridgewater, John; El-Kabir, David

doi:10.1136/bmj.298.6670.372

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“…In London, Ramsden (1989) found that only 39% of those interviewed were registered with a GP, and even then, consultations rarely occurred. In Sheffield, however, over two-thirds of those interviewed were registered with a GP.…”

Section: Policy and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 97%

British Public Policy and the Health of Homeless People

Shanks¹,

Smith²

1992

Policy &Amp; Politics

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There is growing concern among policy makers and the public about the well-documented increase in homelessness in late twentieth century Britain. This concern is fuelled by accumulating evidence that homelessness is hazardous to health, and by the discovery that homeless people often have limited access to primary medical care. There are, moreover, many very real ways in which homelessness is a public health issue and a source of health inequalities. Nevertheless, the aim of this paper is to argue that the health profile of homeless people is substantially a housing issue: one whose urgency may be compromised by the increasing tendency to ‘medicalise’ the problem of homelessness and health.

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Section: Policy and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 97%

British Public Policy and the Health of Homeless People

Shanks¹,

Smith²

1992

Policy &Amp; Politics

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“…On one hand, those patients have barriers to access healthcare such as: social isolation, temporary accommodation in a speci c area, suspicion of traditional health services, lack of awareness about how to register with a general practitioner, di culty to cope with waiting rooms and appointment systems. On the other hand, general practitioners may stigmatize marginalized populations 4 . These obstacles may make marginalized unable or unwilling to access public primary care, creating an unful lled gap between patients and healthcare 5 .…”

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confidence: 99%

Patients of a “street medicine” clinics in Brazil, “World’s Doctors”

Belkovsky,

Toledo,

Barroso

et al. 2023

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“Street medicine” offers a complementary approach for marginalized population’s challenges, usually out of reach by the tradition health system. Our purpose is to describe the sociodemographic profile and the health-related challenges of patients served by a “street medicine” NGO. We analyzed retrospectively the patient cohort (2,226 patients) attending the “World’s Doctors” street-based mobile health clinics established in São Paulo from 1/2019 to 9/2022. Our results were compared with data publicly available of general Brazilian population. We observed more males (66.4%), black (22%), brown (38.8%) and indigenous (3.2%), with a higher mean age (45.7 years) compared to the general population (32.6 years), with low access to drinkable water. Higher prevalence of tuberculosis (2.2%) and STDs (4.5%) were observed, as well as alcohol and drug use disorders. The most common complaints to seek our service were: pain (36%), cough (7.78%), cutaneous lesions (6.11%), weakness (4.81%), and dizziness (4.03%). Patients served by our NGO present health conditions that go beyond main complains. Street based medicine complements traditional healthcare and would benefit from a multidisciplinary approach that involves dealing with social determinants of health and active surveillance and treatment of tuberculosis, STD, and alcohol and drug use disorders.

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“…A number of National Health Service (NHS) initiatives emerged to supplement mainstream primary care services. Examples included primary health care on the street (Ramsden et al ., 1989) and in hostels (Maclean and Naumann, 1979), and health advocate services for homeless families (Reilly et al ., 2004).…”

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Interagency Working to Support the Health of People Who Are Homeless

Joly

Goodman

Froggatt

et al. 2011

Social Policy & Society

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Interagency working is a recurrent theme in homelessness policy literature, but is ill defined and rarely addressed in UK homelessness research. This article draws on findings from a study that explored how interagency working is achieved between statutory and voluntary sector services concerned with improving the health of people experiencing homelessness. We argue that a focus on the health needs and behaviours perceived as being a risk to the general population directly influences interagency working and how

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A mobile surgery for single homeless people in London.

Cited by 21 publications

References 8 publications

British Public Policy and the Health of Homeless People

British Public Policy and the Health of Homeless People

Patients of a “street medicine” clinics in Brazil, “World’s Doctors”

Interagency Working to Support the Health of People Who Are Homeless

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