Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, 1150 S Olive Street, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
J Public Health (Oxf). 2018 Jun 1;40(2):415-418. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdx069.
Permanent supportive housing (PSH) has been recognized as an effective intervention and the national policy for addressing chronic homelessness in the United States. Due to an aging cohort of homeless adults and prioritizing those who are most vulnerable for housing, the health status of those entering PSH is likely worse than those previously reported in the literature.
This report examined the self-reported health and health conditions of a sample of 421 homeless adults entering PSH between 2014 and 2016. The average age of our sample was 54 years old.
Overall, 90% reported two or more chronic conditions (either physical or mental), 68% reported at least two chronic physical health conditions and 56% indicated at least two chronic mental health conditions. Describing their health status, 57% reported fair, poor or very poor health.
These findings suggest that access to housing will not easily remedy the well-documented premature mortality among chronically homeless adults.
永久性支持性住房（PSH）已被公认为解决美国慢性无家可归问题的有效干预措施和国家政策。由于无家可归的成年人年龄越来越大，并且优先考虑那些最脆弱的住房人群，因此进入 PSH 的人的健康状况可能比文献中先前报告的更差。
本报告检查了 2014 年至 2016 年间进入 PSH 的 421 名无家可归成年人的自我报告健康状况和健康状况。我们样本的平均年龄为 54 岁。
总体而言，90%的人报告有两种或两种以上的慢性疾病（无论是身体上的还是精神上的），68%的人报告至少有两种慢性身体健康状况，56%的人表示至少有两种慢性心理健康状况。描述他们的健康状况，57%的人报告健康状况一般、差或非常差。
这些发现表明，获得住房并不能轻易解决长期无家可归的成年人过早死亡的问题。
