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Chronic Mental Illnesses and Homelessness

Chronic Mental Illnesses and Homelessness

Prerna Kukreti, Prerna Khanna, Amit Khanna
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781522505198|ISBN10: 1522505199|EISBN13: 9781522505204
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0519-8.ch001
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Kukreti, Prerna, et al. "Chronic Mental Illnesses and Homelessness." Chronic Mental Illness and the Changing Scope of Intervention Strategies, Diagnosis, and Treatment, edited by Barre Vijaya Prasad, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0519-8.ch001

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Kukreti, P., Khanna, P., & Khanna, A. (2017). Chronic Mental Illnesses and Homelessness. In B. Prasad (Ed.), Chronic Mental Illness and the Changing Scope of Intervention Strategies, Diagnosis, and Treatment (pp. 1-20). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0519-8.ch001

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Kukreti, Prerna, Prerna Khanna, and Amit Khanna. "Chronic Mental Illnesses and Homelessness." In Chronic Mental Illness and the Changing Scope of Intervention Strategies, Diagnosis, and Treatment, edited by Barre Vijaya Prasad, 1-20. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0519-8.ch001

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Abstract

Homelessness is a complex socio-economic problem complicated by individual attributes and risk factors. The burning issue of homelessness has been a subject of concern in the modern day world often stretching the existing administrative system to innovate and design models for managing the same. With the changing definitions of homelessness, the estimates have also varied across cultures and countries. Because of the inherent difficulty in studying homelessness, accurate estimates of the number of homeless are lacking. Most studies in the West report that approximately 288 per 10,000 people are homeless. With the accurate data on homelessness lacking, the estimates of mental illness amongst homeless is even more obscure. The prevalence of mental illness amongst homeless is higher than that compared to the general population. Researchers have theorized various stressors related to homelessness as precipitating factors of mental illness. There is dearth of literature on mental illness in homeless population which is representative of the homeless population at a national level.

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