Permanent Supportive Housing Evaluating the Evidence for Improving Health Outcomes Among People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness (2018) / Chapter Skim
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Revisiting the housing and health care needs of individuals experiencing homelessness is critical to moving the discussion forward and improving health outcomes for this population. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOUSING, HOMELESSNESS, AND HEALTH The relationship between housing and health is complex.
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As such, many in the health care sector -- including payers, hospitals, and clinicians -- are increasingly seeing the potential of the home as a platform for health and wellness services and as an essential tool in chronic care man agement. We also know now that expenditures to improve access to safe, affordable housing can materially improve population health.
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: 2 • A "chronically homeless" individual is defined to mean an individual experiencing homelessness with a disability who lives either in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter, or in an institutional care facility if the individual has been living in the facility for fewer than 90 days and had been living in a place not meant for human habitation, a safe haven, or in an emergency shelter immedi ately before entering the institutional care facility. To meet the "chroni cally homeless" definition, the individual also must have been living as described above continuously for at least 12 months, or on at least four 1The committee agreed upon a slightly different definition from that in the Statement of Task.
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The number of individuals experiencing chronic homelessness is difficult to estimate; however, the 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress estimated that more than 77,000 individuals experiencing homelessness on a specific night in January 2016 were defined as being chronically homeless (HUD, 2016c)
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COMMITTEE'S APPROACH TO THE TASK To respond to this task, the National Academies convened the Committee on an Evaluation of Permanent Supportive Housing Programs for Homeless Individuals in April 2016 to conduct the study and prepare this report. The committee includes 11 experts with research or expertise in a broad range of areas including homelessness policy, social science, health care, health care administration, population health, health disparities, health care cost-effectiveness, housing policy, urban sustainability, urban poverty, health economics, and statistics.
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The evidentiary base for screening tools used in allocating housing services assistance is especially limited. These limits create barriers to the collection of data on health outcomes of persons utilizing PSH.
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Chapter 7 details program and policy barriers to establishing and financing PSH programs. Chapter 8 addresses research gaps.
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