CONTENTS:

Sharing Experiences: News from Health Professionals across the EU:

• Living and housing conditions and health status among people attended by Caritas Barcelona and living in substandard housing by Ana M. Novoa, Davide Malmusi, Julia Ward, Fernando Díaz, Jordi Bosch, Mercè Darnell, Carme Trilla and Carme Borrell
• Homelessness Ageing and Dying – Summary of Findings and Key Recommendations by Louise Lennon and Niamh Randall
• Health and Homelessness: “Post acute” care, an innovative service for vulnerable homeless people by Gianfranco De Maio, Costantina Regazzo, Caterina Cortese
• Homeless Health and Violence : results of the Doctors of the World’s Brussels report by Frank Vanbiervliert

Resources:

• Improving Health and Social Integration through Housing First: A Review
• Tune in Now : a toolkit on depression and anxiety for people who work with homeless men
• Prison and Health : a WHO report
• UK Homeless Health Programme from The Queen’s Nursing Institute
• Safya –A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Health of Homeless People in Europe
• The Unhealthy State of Homelessness : Health Audit Results 2014, England
• Reading Counts : levels of literacy and numeracy among single homeless users : St Mungo’s Broadway report
• Current Issues in Mental Health in Canada: Homelessness and Access to Housing
• Somewhere over the rainbow: the opinions and experiences of people with mental illness in getting housing
• Memory impairment among people who are homeless: a systematic review
• Health care for vulnerable groups: a joint report by Medecins du Monde and the French Hospital Federation