Increasing Use of Digital Technologies Among Homeless-Experienced Veterans, 2022-2024.
Veterans experiencing homelessness (hereinafter, homeless veterans), an important group in society, often have limited access to digital technologies, which may affect their ability to achieve social integration. Using data from annual national surveys of homeless-experienced veterans (HEV) from 202...
| Publicado en: | Public Health Reports Vol. 141; no. 5; pp. 645 - 650 |
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