ReviewAJPM focus2023
Unsheltered Homelessness and Health: A Literature Review.
Review in AJPM focus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.
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Who cites it
61 citing papers in PubMed, 110 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association Between Housing Instability and HIV Care Outcomes Among People With HIV in the United States.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2026Article
- Protocol: Community-Based Interventions to Improve the Health of People Experiencing Homelessness in High-Income Countries: An Evidence and Gap Map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2026Article
- Medicaid waiver-based housing supports in a safety-net setting: utilization and spending outcomes.Health affairs scholar · 2026Article
- Health Harms Associated With Forced Displacements Among People Who Use Drugs in San Francisco, California.Substance use & addiction journal · 2026Article
- Association Between Multidimensional Housing Precarity and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults: Findings from the National Survey of Older Koreans, 2023.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Understanding the Personal Networks of People Experiencing Homelessness in King County, WA with Aggregate Relational Data.Social networks · 2026Article
- Emergency Department Closures and Patient Outcomes: Scoping Review of Impacts on Care, Equity, and System Performance.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2026Article
- The health outcomes of shelter and settlements interventions in humanitarian crises: a systematic review.Conflict and health · 2026Review
- Healthcare Mobility among United States Military Veterans with Experience of Housing Instability.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- "I would protest if they ever stopped coming out here": How street medicine services support ontological security by building trust among a community sample of unsheltered patients in Bakersfield, California.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2026Article
- Improving Population Health Through Housing Policy: Lessons From the Public Housing Program.The Milbank quarterly · 2026Article
- Examining Functional Limitation Trajectories Among Adults Experiencing Homelessness Versus the General Adult Population in Los Angeles County.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Inpatient Documentation of Homelessness After a Medicare Payment Policy Change.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Racial and Ethnic Patterns in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Low-Income Adults in West Texas.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Validation of an Electronic Health Record Algorithm for Identifying Housing-Related Needs in a Safety-Net Health System.Health services research · 2026Article
- Housing Insecurity, Behavioral Health Disorders, and Acute Care Utilization: A Cross-Sectional Study of Medicaid Members in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026Article
- "It's more than just being in a place, it's more like a peace of mind": Ontological security among residents of a transitional housing program implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Article
- What are the true medical concerns facing unsheltered homeless adults?Health affairs scholar · 2026Article
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- Using group concept mapping to co-create a research agenda with the homeless community in Rhode Island.Research involvement and engagement · 2026Article
1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Context: In recent years, cities across the world have seen widespread growth in unsheltered homelessness, in which a person sleeps in a place not meant for human habitation such as cars, parks, sidewalks, and abandoned buildings. It is widely understood that people experiencing homelessness have poorer health outcomes than the general population. Less is known about the health of people who are unsheltered, yet they may be exposed to greater health risks than their sheltered counterparts. The purpose of this literature review is to evaluate and summarize the evidence on unsheltered homelessness and health. Evidence Acquisition: A literature search was conducted using PubMed to identify publications on unsheltered homelessness and health. A total of 42 studies were included for review. Evidence Synthesis: Unsheltered populations experience higher rates of chronic disease, serious mental illness, and substance abuse than sheltered populations. Unsheltered homelessness is strongly associated with chronic homelessness that exacerbates serious mental illness and substance use, which is often co-occurring. Despite having large unmet health needs, unsheltered populations have lower healthcare utilization and often lack health insurance. Conclusions: Evaluating the impact of shelter status on health outcomes has important implications for the allocation of housing and health services. Longitudinal studies are needed to examine the relationship between the duration of sheltered and unsheltered homelessness and health outcomes and explore the mediating mechanisms that lead to poor health among unsheltered populations. Despite these limitations, our results also suggest an urgent need to address the unique and severe challenges facing unsheltered populations and the need for intervention approaches that are sensitive to these unique disease burdens.
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