Health

Title	Author	Publisher	Description	Publication year
A Review of Single Homelessness in the UK 2000 - 2010	Jones, Anwen and Pleace, Nicholas	Crisis		2010
Access to General Practice for People Sleeping Rough	Pleace, N, Jones, A and England, J	Centre for Housing Policy	A report which investigates variations around England in the level of access which people sleeping rough have to GPs. It discusses the problems of...	1999
Access to Healthcare Services by Homeless People in Wales: Gathering Baseline Data		Shelter Cymru	Report based on questionnaire survey of homeless people’s access to healthcare in Wales. Among other research findings, the data...	2009
Access to Mainstream Public Services for Homeless People: A Literature Review	Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion	Crisis	Review of the literature around homeless people’s access to public services, and how these services perform for homeless people. Looks at education...	2005
Achieving Positive Shared Outcomes in Health and Homelessness	Office of the Deputy Prime Minister	Communities and Local Government	A guide for local authorities and primary care trusts on improving the health of homeless people. Downloadable from the CLG website.	2004
Addressing the Health Needs of Rough Sleepers	Griffiths, Sian	Communities and Local Government	A report which presents the findings a Rough Sleeper's Unit project investigating policy development in the primary health care of rough sleepers....	2002
Adviceguide	Citizen's Advice	Citizen's Advice	Website offering advice on a wide range of subjects, including housing rights, welfare, benefits, debt, health and immigration. Also includes...
Assessing the Feasibility of Peer Education among Homeless People: Big Issue Vendors as Peer Educators	National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)	National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)	A report of a Health Education Authority Expert Working Group study that reccommends a key role for the Big Issue in future peer intervention work...	2000
Breadline	Centrepoint	Centrepoint	Briefing on the health and support needs of homeless young people. Covers food poverty, health education, diet and health, and food provision in...	2002
Can a Health Advocate for Homeless Families Reduce Workload for the Primary Healthcare Team: A Controlled Trial.	Reilly, S et al	Wiley-Blackwell	An article which looks at whether the provision of health advocacy for homeless patients reduces the need for primary healthcare services. The paper...	2004