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作者

Ann Elizabeth Montgomery;Dorota Szymkowiak;Jack Tsai

来源

来源 HOUSING POLICY DEBATE,Vol.30,Issue.3

语言

英文

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作者单位

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center on Homelessness among Veterans, Tampa, FL, USA; Health Services Research and Development, Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, AL, USA; School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA;U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center on Homelessness among Veterans, Tampa, FL, USA;U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center on Homelessness among Veterans, Tampa, FL, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

摘要

This study describes race/sex differences in housing instability among veterans and examines whether there are disparities in their access of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) homeless programs. The sample comprised 5,355,858 veterans who responded to VHA’s universal screen for housing instability (Homelessness Screening Clinical Reminder) between October 2012 and March 2016. We compared rates of housing instability and VHA homeless program use by race/sex categories; multivariate logistic regressions modeled positive screens for housing instability and use of VHA homeless programs within 6 months. Veterans representing racial groups other than white—regardless of sex—have greater odds of reporting housing instability and using VHA homeless programs. Women veterans have lower odds of screening positive for housing instability. Findings suggest that groups of veterans with the highest rates of housing instability may experience multiple layers of disadvantage; disparities in accessing care among racial minority groups are not apparent.