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Publication Date: 1993
The shelter experiences, employment history, income and social service needs utilization were examined among...
Publisher: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Publication Date: 2006
The objective of this study was to examine the transferability of Safe in the City (SITC), based in London, England to the Canadian context. SITC was set up in 1998 by the Peabody Trust and Centrepoint, a charity working with homeless and socially excluded youth. The goals of SITC were to help young people stay safely at home; find alternative options for young people who cannot remain safely at home; and develop the life skills and employability...
Publication Date: 2013
This study looked at how homeless persons experienced "welcomeness" and "unwelcomeness" in past encounters with health care providers, and describes their experiences. Seventeen interviews were done with homeless men and women, aged 29-62 years, residing at 5 shelters in Toronto, Canada. Most perceived their experiences of unwelcomeness as acts of discrimination. The study goes on to explain that homelessness and low social class was the main rea...
Publication Date: 2007
Excerpt from the Introduction: . . .This report presents an overview of research, data, interventions and policy directions related to mental health and homelessness. It is organized into two sections. The first section presents compiled estimates of the prevalence of both homelessness and self-reported mental health issues among the homeless across Canada. The second section looks at the effectiveness of two types of related policies and program...
Publication Date: 2004
Housing in-affordability is a growing problem in Canadian cities. This research seeks to find out where do those suffering high rates of housing affordability stress live, and what do the spatial patterns imply about policies intended to address this housing problem? This paper estimates and plots the spatial distribution of households that pay disproportionate amounts of their income for rent, in order to identify places in these regions where h...
Publication Date: 2001
The Anthropological Quarterly has published scholarly articles, review articles, book reviews, and lists of recently published books in all areas of sociocultural anthropology. Its goal is the rapid dissemination of articles that blend precision with humanism, and scrupulous analysis with meticulous description (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_quarterly/index.html). This article is a book review of Braving the Street: The Anthrop...
Publication Date: 1998
The study explores the effects of the threat of formal punishment on the criminal behaviour of homeless male street youths paying particular attention to how these threats are shaped by their living conditions and other factors in their lifestyles. Results reveal that while many street youths fear legal sanctions, more serious offenders do not. Instead their fear of punishment is reduced by their poverty, drug use, association with criminal peers...
Publication Date: 2006
While homelessness is a growing problem in Greater Vancouver, immigrants are not yet a visible part of the region's homeless. The over-representation of immigrants among the population considered at-risk suggests that immigrant homelessness remains hidden. Using census-based housing indicators, we examine the geographies of immigrants at-risk of homelessness to discern where 'hidden' homelessness might be occurring. Findings indicate that: spatia...
Publication Date: 2007
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Canadian cities dealt with a growing housing shortage while the federal and provincial governments argued over who would implement the provisions of the 1944 National Housing Act. This was particularly true in Toronto. As Torontonians celebrated the construction of Regent Park, Canada's "Premier Slum Clearance and Public Housing Project," nearly 1,350 Toronto families were housed in dilapidated...
Publication Date: 2006
This study looks at the use of health-related services by low-income Canadians living in Edmonton and Toronto, both large cities. Data collected from interviews conducted with low-income people, service providers and managers, advocacy group representatives, and senior-level public servants, was analyzed using thematic content analysis. The results seem to show that in addition to health care policies and programs, a broad range of policies, prog...
Publication Date: 1999
Background: Street youths are at high risk for many health problems, including sexually transmitted diseases and bloodborne infections. The authors conducted a cross-sectional anonymous study from December 1995 to September 1996 involving street youths in Montreal to estimate the prevalence of risk behaviours for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and of markers of past and present HBV infection. Methods: Participants were 437 youths aged 14 to...
Publication Date: 2004
Infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major public health burden in Canada and globally. The literature shows that injection drug use is currently the primary transmission route for HCV, and that a majority of injection drug users (IDUs) are currently infected with HCV in Canada. This article first reviews the burden of HCV within IDU populations and the transmission risks and the treatment implications specific to IDUs. Traditionally,...
Publication Date: 1989
This study tries to show the close relationship between health and housing (or homelessness). Experience to date shows that it is not effective to deal with one aspect of poverty in a vacuum. A wholistic approach and comprehensive programmes are essential to ensure adequate service delivery for a variety of problems encountered by increasingly heterogeneous homeless populations.
Publication Date: 1989
High incidence among homeless people of tuberculosis, malnutrition, respiratory problems, skin ulceration, & other infectious diseases. In US cities there has been a concentration on such stopgap measures as emergency shelters & welfare hotels to deal with the growing homeless population. While Canada has a safety net of national health, welfare, & social services, there is still a problem of obtaining access to the system...
Publication Date: 2004
Objectives: To evaluate client and agency satisfaction with a specific assertive community treatment subprogram, known as inner-city support, developed in Edmonton to target the inner-city population, and to determine the demographics and potential needs of this population. Method: Clients were administered questionnaires based on the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire and the Satisfaction With Life Scale. We also conducted a face-to-face intervie...
Publication Date: 2003
Canada is an egalitarian society committed to accessible and comprehensive health care. Although there has been a tendency to assume that its various social welfare programs have improved health conditions for lower income citizens, Canada's record in ensuring health equality remains poorer than expected (Humphries and van Doorslaer, 2000; Wasylenki, 2001). The Canadian Health Act stipulates that all residents of Canada are to have access to medi...
Publication Date: 2002
The objectives of this research were to evaluate the prevalence of reported physical and sexual abuse among youths with substance use problems, to explore whether youths report relying on substances to cope with the abuse, and to examine whether individual factors related to substance use were associated with the outcome measures of reported physical abuse, sexual abuse, and using substances to cope (excerpt from the source)
Publication Date: 1993
An archival study of 110 inmates in a maximum-security provincial institution. Found that more than 39% of inmates were transient, with no fixed address upon release. Significant differences were found between homeless and non-homeless inmates in terms of: institutional behaviour, occurrence of psychopathology including significantly greater observed symptoms of major mental illness among the homeless, use of medical services, prior involvement w...
Publication Date: 2001
Using the database of a hospital-based sexual assault care centre, this study examined data about previous and current victimization from homeless women clients and compared them to data from housed women clients. More homeless women than housed women reported childhood physical abuse, childhood sexual abuse, adult physical assault, previous sexual assault in adulthood, and a history of mental health problems. Among homeless women, 78.5 percent r...
Publication Date: 2005
This paper describes a model of flexible psychiatric outreach service in Canada designed to meet the needs of persons who are homeless or marginally housed and have mental illness. The activities of the Psychiatric Outreach Team of the Royal Ottawa Hospital for individual clients and the community agencies who serve them are profiled, followed by a demographic and mental and physical health profile of the clients seen in the past year. The differ...