ArticleInternational journal of public health2019
Residential moves and its association with substance use, healthcare needs, and acute care use among homeless and vulnerably housed persons in Canada.
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- How and Why Do People Use Behavioral Health Services? A Qualitative Exploration of Service Use Among People Experiencing Housing Insecurity.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2025Article
- Associations Between Different Types of Housing Insecurity and Future Emergency Department Use Among a Cohort of Emergency Department Patients.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2023Article
- Changes in health and health care utilization following eviction from public housing.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Possibilities and constraints of rapid online ethnography: Lessons from a rapid assessment of COVID-19 policy for people who use drugs.Frontiers in sociology · 2022Article
- Health Status and Chronic Disease Burden of the Homeless Population: An Analysis of Two Decades of Multi-Institutional Electronic Medical Records.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2021Article
- Eviction as a Disruptive Factor in Health Care Utilization: Impact on Hospital Readmissions and No-show Rates.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2021Article
- The Determinants of Length of Homeless Shelter Stays: Evidence-Based Regression Analyses.International journal of public health · 2021Article
- Homeless Shelter Entry in the Year After an Emergency Department Visit: Results From a Linked Data Analysis.Annals of emergency medicine · 2020Article
- Examining the Association between Community-Level Marginalization and Emergency Room Wait Time in Ontario, Canada.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2020Article
- The Association of Residential Instability and Hospitalizations among Homeless and Vulnerably Housed Individuals: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine the relationship between housing instability, as measured by the number of residential moves, with problematic substance use, unmet healthcare needs, and acute care utilization.
methodsA cohort of homeless or vulnerably housed persons from Vancouver (n = 387), Toronto (n = 390), and Ottawa (n = 396) completed interviewer-administered surveys at baseline and annually for 4 years from 2009 to 2013. Generalized mixed effects logistic regression models were used to examine the association between the number of residential moves and each of the three outcome variables, adjusting for potential confounders.
resultsThe number of residential moves was significantly associated with higher acute care utilization [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 1.25; 95% confidence interval (CI) CI: 1.17-1.33], unmet healthcare needs (AOR 1.14; 95% CI: 1.07-1.22), and problematic substance use (AOR 1.26; 95% CI: 1.16-1.36). Having chronic physical or mental conditions and recent incarceration were also found to be associated with the outcomes.
conclusionsHousing instability increased the odds of all three poor health metrics, highlighting the importance of stable housing as a critical social determinant of health.
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