Access to primary care services remains difficult for people experiencing homelessness as a
result of innumerable barriers, both structural and economic.(1, 2) Street homeless men and …

Homelessness is a neglected crisis throughout the United States. In Los Angeles (LA)
County, nearly 59,000 residents are homeless, and the vast majority are unsheltered. An …

Street Medicine, an emerging field of medicine in the United States, is the provision of health
care directly to those living on the streets of our communities. As such, it represents a trend …

To the editor: Homelessness is a unique problem with serious public health concerns due to
increased rates of mental health diagnoses, untreated medical comorbidities, and mortality …

Jim, a Korean War veteran in his seventies, lives in a '79 Cadillac. Unable to afford housing,
his hygiene is quite poor; access to water is limited to restaurant bathrooms. Jim has severe …

Homelessness affects men, women, and children of all races and ethnicities. On any given
night, more than 610,000 persons in the United States are homeless; a little more than one …

There is ample evidence that homelessness is associated with high rates of morbidity and
mortality. Street Medicine seeks to eliminate these disparities by providing healthcare on the …

Robert Frost once described home as “the place where, when you have to go there,/They
have to take you in.” 1 This is precisely what the homeless lack: not only a home of their own …

Learning from medicine's past may be important. Effective primary and preventive care for
homeless people is possible if physicians are willing to venture out from traditional hospital …

OBJECTIVE: The homeless are more likely than other poor and vulnerable populations to
manifest serious health problems. Early research focused on needs assessments of this …