Warning
To protect your privacy, you will be logged out within 5 minutes due to inactivity.
If you would like to stay logged in, simply click "Okay".
 
   
Skip Navigation
Login or register
About Us  Contact Us
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Add Comment
Subscribe
Share This
Print
3029 Views
No Recommendations Yet Click here to recommend.
Description: This letter to the editor by social worker Bejamin Alexander-Eitzman suggests that another article appearing in the Journal (Canton, et al. "Risk factors for long-term homelessness: findings from a longitudinal study of first-time homeless single adults") examines the wrong questions. Alexander-Eitzman believes that the "public healthification" of homelessness (e.g., "that social problems such as homelessness are defined by personal-level determinants that may be dissected by means of the common methods of epidemiology") does not give useful information in trying to prevent the problem of homelessness. Rather, he argues that "an accurate assessment of the determinants of the course of homelessness must include multiple levels of analysis, including dynamic interactions between personal, environmental, and social factors." (Authors)
File(s)
Type of Resource: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Volume: 96
Issue: 5
Pages: 764
Source: 96(5)764
   
 
Suggest Edit
Please let us know how we can make this resource better.
Your Email Address