Using Point-in-Time Homeless Counts to Monitor Mortality Trends Among People Experiencing Homelessness in Los Angeles County, California, 2015‒2019

• Published in: American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 111; no. 12; pp. 2212 - 2222
• Main Authors: Nicholas, Will, Greenwell, Lisa, Henwood, Benjamin F., Simon, Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Public Health Association 01.12.2021
• Subjects: Age; Cause of Death; Censuses; Cohort analysis; Confidence intervals; Death; Death & dying; Demographics; Drug overdose; Drug Overdose - mortality; Drugs; Epidemiology; Estimates; Female; Gender; Homeless people; Homeless Persons - statistics & numerical data; Homelessness; Hospitals; Humans; Literature reviews; Los Angeles - epidemiology; Male; Medicine; Mortality; Mortality rates; Open-Themed Research; Other Race/Ethnicity; Overdose; Population; Population Groups - statistics & numerical data; Public health; Public Health Practice; Research & Analysis; Shelters; Subject codes; Trends; Urban development; Urban Health; Los Angeles; Los Angeles County California; United States > US; California

Objectives. To report trends in mortality rates, mortality rate ratios (MRRs), and causes of death among people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in Los Angeles County, California, by using annual point-in-time homeless counts and to compare findings to published longitudinal cohort studies of homeles...