4012.0 Impact of Homelessness on Health and Well-being

Tuesday, November 10, 2009: 8:30 AM
Oral
People who are experiencing homelessness and have serious mental illness face a complex array of psychosocial and socioeconomic problems. This session will describe some of the physical and mental healthcare barriers reported by recently homeless persons. This session will also explain the critical role of community based social support networks in public housing projects and the potential costs for policy initiatives that fail to recognize that role.
Session Objectives: 1) Identify health protective social resources that exist within federally owned public housing projects. 2)Describe how to appropriately tailor housing and services for homeless individuals with and without mental illness. 3) Identify factors related to healthcare barriers among mentally ill homeless adults.
Moderator:
Suzanne Zerger, PhD

8:30 AM
Impact of housing and service use on the well-being and community integration of homeless individuals with and without mental illness
Leyla Gulcur, PhD and Tuo-Yen Tseng, MA
  
8:45 AM
Community-Based Social Support in Public-Housing Projects: Interrogating the Social Costs of Demolition and Dispersal
Danya Keene, PhD and Arline Geronimus, ScD
9:00 AM
Examining healthcare barriers among severely mentally ill homeless adults in the Five-Site Health and Risk Study
Mimi Misung Kim, PhD and Daniel W. Bradford, MD, MPH
  
9:15 AM
Evaluation of Differences and Changes in Medical Student Attitudes through Assessment and Comparison of Two Attitudinal Inventories: The HPATHI and ATHI
Benjamin T. King, David S. Buck, MD,MPH and Carlie A. Brown
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Caucus on Homelessness
Endorsed by: Family Violence Prevention Forum, Socialist Caucus, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

See more of: Caucus on Homelessness
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