This book offers a new understanding of the relationship between
family homelessness and health care use. For the majority of poor
families who become homeless, the experience is temporary; yet
little is known about these families after they are no longer
homeless. Studies have shown that families living in shelters have
difficulty accessing mainstream health care providers. This
research documents for the first time the barriers these families
continue to face after they are no longer homeless.
Providing an overview of the literature on homelessness and
health care, this book presents detailed descriptions of health,
housing conditions, and family histories. The study is unique in
its longitudinal perspective -- mothers were interviewed at the
time they were requesting shelter and again four years later. This
data was compared to data collected from mothers on welfare who had
never been homeless. The author analyzes the differences in health
care utilization patterns between formerly homeless families and
those who had never used the resources of a shelter, and presents
policy recommendations in the context of recent changes in welfare
policies and the expansion of Medicaid managed care programs.
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