Resources at a Glance

Poverty Tool

Ontario Medical Review - Poverty Series 2013

Centre for Urban Health Solutions (C-UHS)

Street Health Reports

Featured Articles

CBC News: Doctor hits the road to deliver palliative care to Toronto's homeless

City budget cuts will harm those most vulnerable - Shaurya Taran, Naheed Dosani

The Cost of Poverty Affects Us All - Dr. Gary Bloch

Forty is too young to die - A call for action from Toronto’s Early-Onset Illness and Mortality Working Group.

Advance care planning, palliative care, and end-of-life care interventions for homeless people: A systematic review (June 2016) - SAGE

Minding the gap: Access to Palliative Care and the Homeless (November 2015) - BMC Palliative Care

Understanding community integration in a Housing First approach: Toronto At Home/Chez Soi community-based research (June 2015) - Intersectionalities

Health interventions for people who are homeless (October 2014) - The Lancet

Different faces of discrimination: Perceived discrimination among homeless adults with mental illness in healthcare settings (September 2014) - BMC Health Services Research

Healthcare utilization, legal incidents, and victimization following traumatic brain injury in homeless and vulnerably housed individuals: A prospective cohort study (March 2014) - Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation

A comprehensive assessment of health care utilization among homeless adults under a system of universal health insurance (December 2013) - American Journal of Public Health

High utilizers of emergency health services in a population-based sample of homeless adults (December 2013) - American Journal of Public Health

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