Investing in Housing for Health Improves Both Mission and Margin

2017/10/31 by Megan Sandel, Matthew Desmond · 3 citations
Health Professions · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Homelessness and Social Issues #Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations #Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

paper · doi:10.1001/jama.2017.15771

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Abstract

This Viewpoint reviews the contribution of housing instability to health care outcomes and costs and proposes ways hospitals and health systems could address homelessness to prevent the health problems that result from it.

Citations

• Who gets evicted? Assessing individual, neighborhood, and network factors

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• Association of Eviction With Adverse Birth Outcomes Among Women in Georgia, 2000 to 2016
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