by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 24, 2017
CHRA’s 49th National Congress on Housing and Homelessness brought together Canadian and international practitioners, policy makers, front line workers, government officials, and key stakeholders from across the affordable housing and homelessness sector for...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | May 14, 2017
150,000-300,000 people experience homelessness in a given year in Canada. On a single night, 1400 people experience homelessness in Victoria. Homelessness is a result of structural factors such as poverty and high housing costs, systemic factors such as aging out of...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Apr 24, 2017
Social justice is a matter of life and death. We can all easily recognise the health inequalities experienced by people for whom absolute poverty is a daily reality. (There is) very little reference in studies of patients stories in clinical encounters, to their daily...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Mar 21, 2017
Background: Latent TB infection (LTBI) is disproportionately prevalent among certain US populations, including homeless persons.Diabetes mellitus (DM) is also more common among those with LTBI and suggests higher risk for development of TB disease.A significant...
by Bogdan Lihanceanu | Mar 9, 2017
Objective:Â The At Home/Chez Soi randomized controlled trial examines the effectiveness of a less resource-intensive Housing First intervention using Intensive Case Management (HF-ICM) for homeless individuals with mental illness and moderate levels of unmet mental...
