Homelessness & Health in Canada (Health & Society) (Health and Society) - Softcover

Manal Guirguis-Younger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0776621432 ISBN 13: 9780776621432

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press, 2014

Synopsis

Homelessness & Health in Canada explores, for the first time, the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health of homeless persons in Canada. Covering a wide range of topics from youth homelessness to end-of-life care, the authors strive to outline policy and practice recommendations to respond to the ongoing public health crisis. This book is divided into three distinct but complimentary sections. In the first section, contributors explore how homelessness affects the health of particular homeless populations, focusing on the experiences of homeless youth, immigrants, refugees and people of Aboriginal ancestry. In the second section, contributors investigate how housing and public health policy as well as programmatic responses can address various health challenges, including severe mental illness and HIV/AIDS. In the final section, contributors highlight innovative Canadian interventions that have shown great promise in the field. Together, they form a comprehensive survey of an all too important topic and serve as a blueprint for action.

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Review

"McNeil, Manal Guirguis-Younger and Stephen Hwang coalesce new research findings with substantive reviews of existing research by emerging and establishing health researchers to create a blueprint for improving homeless people's health from youth to end-of-life."--Simon Fraser University (05/29/2014)

About the Author

Manal Guirguis-Younger is a professor in the Faculty of Human Sciences at Saint Paul University. Her research focuses on community homelessness, palliative care, and alternative models of health service delivery to marginalized groups. She has recently concluded a three-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant entitled: Hospice and Homelessness in Canada. Dr. Stephen Hwang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto and a research scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto. His research has focused on homeless people's health problems and housing as a social determinant of health. Ryan McNeil is a Qualitative Health Researcher at the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and Doctoral Candidate in at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the social-structural production of health harms among drug-using populations. His previous work explored the intersection of homelessness and health. Ryan has conducted qualitative fieldwork in homeless health care settings across Canada.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0776621432
• ISBN 13: 9780776621432
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Stephen W. Hwang, Ryan McNeil