Homelessness

Researchers found a large increase in resistant Shigella sonnei infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, noting that it spread primarily among people experiencing homelessness, according to a study.

Women who reported experiencing homelessness during the year before giving birth were more likely to have delayed prenatal care and develop hypertension, diabetes and postpartum depression vs. women who reported adequate housing, data show.

Homeless veterans with lung or colorectal cancers had higher mortality rates than housed veterans, study data published in JAMA Network Open showed.

Nearly twice as many hepatitis A virus-related deaths were reported in the United States from 2016 to 2022 compared with the previous 6 years, with individuals who use drugs or experience homelessness and unstable housing most at risk.

SAN FRANCISCO — In a video perspective, Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH, professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine, discusses medical comorbidities associated with homelessness, namely of the feet.

SAN FRANCISCO — Collaboration and communication between mental and physical health services is crucial to overcome logistics of providing proper care for homeless individuals in a large city, Carine Nzodom, MD, says in a Healio video.

On Nov. 29, 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a directive clarifying that authorities can bring people experiencing homelessness and severe mental illness to a hospital for care, according to a city press release.

In the United States, students with disabilities are more likely to experience homelessness than peers without disabilities, but insufficient reporting practices make the full scope of the problem unclear, according to researchers.

SEATTLE — An intervention called LinkUP improved rates of COVID-19 testing and vaccination referral acceptance among people who inject drugs, with increased impact among those experiencing homeless, researchers found.

Hepatitis C reinfection rates were high among a population of people who had experienced homelessness but increased even more among those experiencing homelessness at the time of treatment, researchers found.