SBSM-DWW hosts a journal club to educate our volunteers and community members. Find the articles featured in our journal club below.


Health Care and Public Service Use and Costs Before and After Provision of Housing for Chronically Homeless Persons With Severe Alcohol Problems


Acute Myocardial Infarction after Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Infection


Effect of a Housing and Case Management Program on Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Among Chronically Ill Homeless Adults: A Randomized Trial


Homelessness in Schizophrenia


Substance Use and Other Risk Factors for Unprotected Sex: Results From An Event-Based Study of Homeless Youth


Voices of Homeless Alcoholics Who Frequent Bellevue Hospital: A Qualitative Study


The Role of Charity Care and Primary Care Physician Assignment on Emergency Department Utilization in Homeless Patients


Prevalence of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia in Houston Outreach Medicine, Education, and Social Services (HOMES) Clinic Patients: Implications for Student-Managed Clinics for Underserved Populations


Point-Counterpoint: Cervical Cancer Screening Should Be Done by Primary Human Papillomavirus Testing with Genotyping and Reflex Cytology for Women over the Age of 25 Years


Social Determinants of Health Inequalities


Prospective Trial of Customized Adherence Enhancement Plus Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotic Medication in Homeless or Recently Homeless Individuals With Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder


Interventions to Improve Infl uenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates Among Community-Dwelling Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis


The Prescription Opioid and Heroin Crisis: A Public Health Approach to an Epidemic of Addiction


Housing the Chronically Homeless: High Hopes, Complex Realities


House Calls for Homeless People in the USA


Homelessness and Discharge Delays from an Urban Safety Net Hospital


Health Care for Homeless Women: Unmet Needs and Barriers to Care


Homeless in Santa Barbara County: 2017 Report


If You Provide the Test, They will Take It: Factors Associated with HIV/STI Testing in a Representative Sample of Homeless Youth in Los Angeles


Hepatitis A


Formerly Homeless People Had Lower Overall Health Care Expenditures After Moving Into Supportive Housing


Foot Conditions among Homeless Persons: A Systematic Review


Frozen vs Fresh Fecal Microbiota Transplantation and Clinical Resolution of Diarrhea in Patients With Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection: A Randomized Clinical Trial



Using Best-Worst Scaling to Understand Patient Priorities: A Case Example of Papanicolaou Tests for Homeless Women


Chronic Stress and Associated Coping Strategies Among Volunteer EMS Personnel


Homeless Persons’ Barriers to Acquiring Health Insurance through the Affordable Care Act


Are you Under Stress in EMS?


Comparing Homeless Persons’ Care Experiences in Tailored Versus Nontailored Primary Care Programs


Care of the Homeless: An Overview


Mortality and Access to Care among Adults after State Medicaid Expansions


Smoking Cessation in a Homeless Population: There Is a Will, but Is There a Way?




The Promise and Peril of Accountable Care for Vulnerable Populations:  A Framework for Overcoming Obstacles


The Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program: A Public Health Framework


What You Need to Know When Called Upon to Be a Good Samaritan  


Schizophrenia for Primary Care Providers: How to Contribute to the Care of a Vulnerable Patient Population




A Successful and Sustainable Health System — How to Get There from Here


Supreme Court Review of the Health Care Reform Law


The Fate of Health Care Reform — What to Expect in 2012


Cost-Effectiveness of Services for Mentally Ill Homeless People:   The Application of Research to Policy and Practice


Hypothermia in a desert climate: severity score and mortality prediction


The Role of the Emergency Department in the Care of Homeless and Disadvantaged Populations


Sheltered Versus Non-sheltered Homeless Women


Health Care For Homeless Women 


Risk Factors for Death in Homeless Adults.


A Public Health Approach to Reducing Morbidity and Mortality Among Homeless People in Boston


Premature Mortality in Homeless Population: A Literature Review


Medicaid Costs and Homelessness


Hot Spotters


Sheltered vs Nonsheltered Homeless Women


The Homeless in America- Adapting Your Practice


Taking it to the Street-Homelessness, Health, and Health Care in the United States


Health Care Headaches–Accessing Safety Net Services


Hard to Reach- Rural Homelessness and Health Care


Prevalence of Skin Infections in Sheltered Homeless


Infections in the Homeless