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SUBMITTER: O'Carroll A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6651952 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
International journal for equity in health 20190723 1
<h4>Background</h4>Homeless people have poor health and mortality indices. Despite this they make poor usage of health services. This study sought to understand why they use health services differently from the domiciled population.<h4>Methods</h4>Ethnographic observations were conducted at several homeless services, in Dublin. This was supplemented with 47 semi-structured interviews with homeless people and two focus groups of homeless people and hospital doctors. A critical-realist approach wa ...[more]