A Study of Cross-Sector Health Care Services for the Homeless Community Health Service Capacity Measured and Tested

Communities across the U.S. have been challenged with effectively and efficiently addressing the incidence of homeless. The needs of those experiencing homelessness are varied and complex, and chief among these needs is access to affordable primary health care services. Research indicates that indiv...

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Published inJournal of health and human services administration Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 178 - 195
Main Authors Jang, Hee Soung, Valero, Jesus N., Jeong, Jihoon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SPAEF 22.09.2020
SAGE Publications
Southern Public Administration Education Foundation, Inc
Southern Public Administration Education Foundation
Subjects
Access
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
At risk populations
Capacity
Care and treatment
Clinics
Collaboration
Community health care
Community health services
Community service
Continuum of care
Delegates
Demographic aspects
Dental care
Emergency medical care
Evaluation
Health care
Health research
Health services
HIV
Homeless people
Homeless persons
Homelessness
Hospitals
Human immunodeficiency virus
Human services
Local government
Medicine
Mental disorders
Mental health
Mental health care
Needs
Nonprofit organizations
Population
Primary care
Primary health care
Sex crimes
Supply and demand
United States
United States > US
Health care for the homeless
Continuum of Care (CoC)
Primary care service to homeless
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Summary:Communities across the U.S. have been challenged with effectively and efficiently addressing the incidence of homeless. The needs of those experiencing homelessness are varied and complex, and chief among these needs is access to affordable primary health care services. Research indicates that individuals experiencing homelessness are at higher risk of preventable diseases and also are less likely to access health care systems than most other populations. Because federal law delegates the provision of health and human services to local entities such as nonprofits, local governments, and private hospitals, communities create collaborative networks known as Continuum of Care (CoCs) to pool local resources and coordinate community-based health and human services. We conduct an original research by launching a national survey to community service networks, and from data collected, we offer knowledge about the type and variety of health care services made available across communities and the multidimensional factors that are associated with the extent to which communities are responding to the primary health care needs of a vulnerable population. We found that homeless medical service needs and community service resources are associated with the degree to which a CoC provides health care services.
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ISSN:1079-3739
2168-5509
DOI:10.37808/jhhsa.43.2.6