The health status and well-being of low-resource, housing-unstable, single-parent families living in violent neighbourhoods in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The health and well-being of single-parent families living in violent neighbourhoods in US cities who participate in housing programmes is not well described. This two-phase, mixed-methods study explores the health status of families who were participants in a housing-plus programme in Philadelphia,...
| Publicado en: | Health & Social Care in the Community Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 578 - 590 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2017
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