Homeless People in Nicaragua: A Point‐in‐Time Count in León | Zendy

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Homeless People in Nicaragua: A Point‐in‐Time Count in León

Author(s) -

Suarez Alexia,

Berrios Alberto,

Bonilla Enrique,

Vázquez José Juan

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of international development

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533

H-Index - 66

eISSN - 1099-1328

pISSN - 0954-1748

DOI - 10.1002/jid.3303

Subject(s) - mental health , personal hygiene , hygiene , gerontology , clothing , medicine , demography , psychology , psychiatry , geography , sociology , family medicine , archaeology , pathology

This work analyses the difficulties encounter to determine who should be considered a homeless person in a developing country, and the result of a point‐in‐time count of homeless people done in the city of Leon (185,000 inhabitants), Nicaragua. Throughout the point‐in‐time count, 82 unduplicated persons living homeless were tallied (76% male; 23% female); 11% were under age. Half of the homeless detected seemed to have problems related to mental health, alcohol and drugs, and/or wounds, dermatological or dental problems. Sixty‐nine percent showed a bad physical appearance, 74% had poor personal hygiene, and 80% had the dirty or very dirty clothes.

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