Housing

Inpatient management of people with cancer varied considerably based on their housing status, according to results of a cross-sectional study.

Adolescents who experienced housing insecurity beginning in infancy reported worse overall health outcomes, including anxiety and depressive symptoms, according to study results published in Pediatrics.

Building community partnerships, having community specialists within a care team and using screening tools are all necessary steps to identifying and addressing social needs, according to experts.

A primary care-based housing program helped to reduce the number of annual primary care and outpatient visits among participants while improving mental and physical health, researchers found.

Residential instability, a component of neighborhood social deprivation included in the Ontario Marginalization Index, was associated with increased health care costs after transcatheter aortic valve replacement, researchers reported.

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.

WASHINGTON — Food insecurity and housing instability were associated with self-reported negative mental and physical health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a poster presented here.

Key takeaways:

Children placed in permanent supportive housing were more likely to attend dental visits than peers in a matched cohort, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Electronic health record-based questionnaires were less accurate in identifying patients with housing and financial struggles compared with single-domain questionnaires, a research letter found.