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Under the Safety Net: The Health and Social Welfare of Homeless in the United States - Hardcover

 
9780393028850: Under the Safety Net: The Health and Social Welfare of Homeless in the United States
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Discusses the health concerns of the homeless, including AIDS, TB, alcohol and drug abuse, and mental illness

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Linda Keen Scharer received her master’s degree in urban planning from New York University. She is presently assistant director of the Department of Community Medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center of New York. In addition to her work with the homeless, Ms. Scharer has written extensively on home health care issues and serves on the editorial board of the PRIDE Institute’s Journal of Long-Term Home Health Care.
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In 1984 the Health Care for the Homeless Project (HCHP) was launched to provide health and social services to the homeless in 19 major American cities. With $25 million in funds from two major foundations, HCHP served over 100,000 clients in a five-year period. This book, edited by the director of community medicine at New York's St. Vincent Hospital, offers case studies and personal observations of HCHP workers. As a whole, these perspectives provide a summary of how and why the project was created and detail the successes and pitfalls of operating community health programs. Most of the accounts are concerned with the major medical problems of the homeless--AIDS, tuberculosis, hypertension, mental illness--and the challenge of caring for people often unable to provide themselves with food and shelter. Although the contributors are obviously most used to writing for other professionals, their from-the-front-lines reporting vividly illustrates the tragedy of homelessness in America. Highly recommended.
- Karen McNally Bensing, The Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib., Cleveland
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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  • PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
  • Publication date1991
  • ISBN 10 0393028852
  • ISBN 13 9780393028850
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages439
  • EditorBrickner Philip

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