Health

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Supportive housing helps formerly homeless people gain control of their lives and their ailments, from mental illness to HIV/AIDS. The following studies illustrate the tangible health benefits of permanent supportive housing.

• Effect of a Housing Program on Hospital Use
  

  Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009, Laura S. Sadowski et al.

• Cost Effectiveness of Housing As HIV Prevention and Care
  

  Nancy Bernstine, 2009

• Health Care and Public Service Use and Costs
  

  Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009, Mary E. Larimer et al.

• Rethinking Service Delivery for High-Cost Medicaid Patients
  

  Medicaid Institute at United Hospital Fund, 2009

• Health Impacts of Supportive Housing on HIV+ Homeless Patients
  

  American Journal of Public Health, 2009, David Buchanan et al.

• Supportive Housing in Illinois: A Wise Investment
  

  The Heartland Alliance Mid-America Institute on Poverty, 2009

• Home & Healthy for Good
  

  Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance, 2009

• Cost of Rural Homelessness
  

  Melany Mondello, et al., 2009

• The Minnesota Supportive Housing and Managed Care Pilot
  

  National Center on Family Homelessness, 2009

• Rhode Island’s Housing First Program Evaluation
  

  Eric Hirsch, et al., 2008

• Cost and Threshold Analysis of Housing as an HIV Intervention
  

  AIDS Behavior, 2007, David R. Holtgrave et al.

• Housing Is HIV Prevention and Health Care
  

  National AIDS Housing Coalitioin, 2007

• Findings from a Pilot Study of Homeless Dually Diagnosed Adults
  

  Central City Concern, 2006

• Impact of Supportive Housing on Acute Care Health Services
  

  Psychiatric Services, 2006, Tia E. Martinez et al.

• The Health of Homeless Adults in New York City
  

  New York City DHS and DOHMH, 2005

• Direct Access to Housing
  

  San Francisco Department of Public Health, 2004

• Connecticut Supportive Housing Demonstration Program
  

  Arthur Andersen LLP, 2002

• Collecting and Using Practice-Based Evidence
  

  Housing Works, 2010

• Supportive Housing and the Public Health Crisis of Homelessness
  

  Corporation for Supportive Housing, 2000

• Hospital Costs Associated with Homelessness in New York City
  

  New England Journal of Medicine, 1998, Sharon A. Salit et al.

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