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Reckoning with complexity: The intersection of homelessness and serious mental illness, and its implications for nursing practice
Author(s) -
Karadzhov Dimitar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1111/jpm.12575
Subject(s) - mental illness , mental health , disadvantage , poverty , social exclusion , psychology , medicine , sociology , nursing , psychiatry , criminology , economic growth , political science , law , economics
Persistently high levels of homelessness are a symptom of deeply unequal societies. The disproportionately adverse health-related outcomes observed in homeless populations in developed countries- including their high morbidity, mortality and disability rates-constitute a public health and a human rights emergency (Aldridge et al., 2018). Homelessness is often aptly conceptualised as the adverse socio-economic sequela of concomitant forms of deep social exclusion such as poverty, housing exclusion, institutionalisation, interpersonal violence, substance use and others. Homelessness and housing exclusion can be profoundly disruptive biographical experiences that emerge from intersecting axes of inequality.