BMJ  2003;327:110 (12 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7406.110-a

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A paper in this week's BMJ (p 81) looks at risk factors for early death among homeless people. The health needs of homeless people are complex and challenging: homeless people represent a group most in need of health care yet least likely to receive it. Can the internet help us learn more about their needs and begin to find a way of providing solutions?

Excellent places to start any factfinding mission on homelessness are the websites of the national homeless organisations Crisis (www.crisis.org.uk/) and Shelter (www.shelter.org.uk). In particular, www.crisis.org.uk/research/health.php and www.shelter.org.uk/images/pdfs/factsheets/health_factsheet.pdf both provide comprehensive factsheets and useful references for further research. www.homelesspages.org.uk is a good portal for homelessness. It has a section on health containing links to 44 resources, covering a broad spectrum of relevant issues from hypothermia to nutrition. A word of warning, though: some of the most interesting links are to publications . . . [Full text of this article]

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10 year follow up study of mortality among users of hostels for homeless people in Copenhagen

Merete Nordentoft and Nina Wandall-Holm
BMJ 2003 327: 81. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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