Being out of home can have many implications to a persons health. As they are vulnerable and often may not have the resources to provide food or shelter for themselves they are leaving themselves open to a lot of preventable infections and diseases, be it a common flu or HIV. (http://www.focusireland.ie/files/docs/effects%20-%20link.pdf) This high level of vulnerability could result in early onset of death and high mortality rates. Crisis believe that “Homeless people die younger. The average age of death of those recorded as homeless on corners varies between 42 and 53 years.” (Crisis,
Many of these homeless individuals may have had a pre existing substance abuse problem and became homeless because family members were no longer willing to enable self-destructive behavior. In a case like this, the individual essentially chooses to be homeless instead of obtaining assistance for his or her substance abuse issues. Another example of using critical thinking to understand the cause of an issue can be made by trying to understand mental illness among the homeless population. An inference can be made that mentally ill individuals become homeless as a result of his or her inability to provide a stable environment for his or herself. This is based on the assumption that mentally ill individuals
In a lot of the homeless people this connection has been lost, which results to losing both their dignity and their moral sense because of their homeless condition (Neal, 2004). Losing this interaction with others can take away their living, and worsen the way they live their lives. Newly homeless individuals are likely to feel unsure of what to do because they are unable to function in their new environment. Social
Homelessness and Access to Health Care: Policy Options and Considerations Danalyn Byng 1 Introduction - Background to the Issue Homelessness is an issue that prevails across most developed countries. In Canada, rates of homelessness are on the rise, and it is not limited to one specific group of people (Currie, Greaves, Golden, & Latimer, 1999, p. 17). Homelessness has many faces: male and female, young and old, lifelong citizens of Canada and immigrants and refugees. There is a clear connection between homelessness and poor health. To understand the health of a population, one needs not only to take into consideration biological or genetic predispositions that make up the group.
Short term this can be good for you however over a prolonged period it can have an adverse effect on our health. Research has shown that there are links between stress and diseases such as heart attacks and strokes, and if nothing is done to stop this, the likelihood of illness will increase or recovery from illness may take longer than necessary”. (W.H.O
To be homeless is difficult to measure because so many different people have different opinions on what it means to be homeless. To overcome homelessness we must tackle the root causes, of course provide them a stable living environment, but also have systems in place to treat why people are homeless be it medical, employment, disaster. We
The Causes Related to Homelessness; Draft The Causes Related to Homelessness Capella University Scope of human Services HS- 5318 Professor M. Martin By Sandra Wright 2 Abstract The geographical divide that separates the rich from the poor is that some people are privileged and some are not. Homelessness is not a privilege but it is an experience that many people stumble upon. furthermore many people have , since the beginning of time gone through one step after the other through some type of trajectory in their lives experiencing , evictions, financial difficulties , job loss, and mental illnesses before and after becoming homeless . in this report homelessness will be used through different levels of some people’s trajectory in their lives through events that may be the causes related to homelessness. Through recent research and examination of different areas in our nation researchers explored the domains of material , physical and mental health and safety wellbeing of homeless people life chances that has increased for many individuals young and old through different pathways .
Different studies have, however, depicted that socio economic status is one of the socio demographic characteristic influencing perception of patients (homeless patient) among physicians (Crowe, 2012). This raises the question of whether attitudes toward the homeless are affected by the level of socio economic status. Additionally, does the socio-economic status influence how the students of CSULB view the homeless? There is a wide body of research dedicated to investigating the predictors of negative behaviour and attitude toward the homeless among the American youth, but most of this research result to various discrepancies and divergence in results. For example, Jugan (2007) argues that lower socio-economic groups generally tend to have more generous ideals toward the homeless, and the problem of homelessness.
Haryo Bhawiko English 1 Professor Phillips L K Draft 2 09/27/07 Homeless Today Today, homelessness is a big problem that happens everywhere in the world. It can have some different meanings depending from the views. In the book, both authors, Barbara Lazear Ascher and Anna Quindlen, both explored the world of homeless. They have different opinions about homeless people. In fact, both authors also have some the same opinion.
Ethnicity has repeatedly been shown to be a strong indicator of health status. Deprivation, socioeconomic factors such as income, education and unemployment, is recognised as a major indicator of health. These are demographic characteristics that will influence services, for example if a local community have a particularly high number of older people then residential homes and nursing homes are going to be more important that than services for children like nurseries and playgroups. I have chosen to look at teenage pregnancies and child poverty in Norfolk. Child Poverty Many children and young people in Norfolk face a variety of disadvantages that mean they are less likely to have positive outcomes for their lives.