Immigration and long-term mobility/disability homelessness

Immigration and long-term mobility/disability homelessness

Introduction

A review of recent literature on integrating health care and other services for socially isolated women who are poor and persons who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness was undertaken, with particular attention paid to Canadian sources. This phase of the research established a framework for analyzing and interpreting the research findings. The literature review sets out working definitions of the terms "homelessness," "at-risk of homelessness," and highlights differences in how these terms are understood in urban and suburban versus rural, small town and remote settings. It articulates examples of specific and unique health care needs of women, and the implications of these health needs for women who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness. Sintering. 2002. Common Occurrence: the impact of disability homelessness on women's health. Toronto: Kappel Ramji Consultants

Literature Review

While the primary focus of the study is services for homeless women or women at-risk of homelessness, the researchers will also explore relevant examples of integrated service delivery which are non-gender specific, or are for families, children, youth or men. This will ensure a broad range of current practices which can be identified and the initiatives outside large urban areas will be considered. This research is based on the understanding that women who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness face increased risks of ill-health, while also facing institutional barriers that restrict access to consistent, prevention-oriented health care. Homeless women live in suburban, small town, rural, and remote parts of the province, as well as the central areas of large cities. Therefore the researchers are focusing on models that occur in, and are adaptable to, a range of human settlements. This research is based on the understanding that women who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness face increased risks of ill-health, while also facing institutional barriers that restrict access to consistent, prevention-oriented health care. (Kushner et. al. 1998) Homeless women live in suburban, small town, rural, and remote parts of the province, as well as the central areas of large cities. Therefore the researchers will have to focus on models that occur in, and are adaptable to, a range of human settlements. It is thus an example of integrated case management which also aims for continuous care and coordination between housing and health services. A common theme in this initiative, and the projects which follow, is bringing the health services to homeless people ...