Homelessness: Planning a Visit
Chinwendu Chukwudike
Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR506: HealthCare Policy
Fall A, 2015
Homelessness: Planning a Visit
Homelessness is a huge social problem for ages in our society (Hudson and Nandy, 2012). This issue has been a major public health issue and each year, millions of Americans are chronicled homeless. These individuals lacks steady housing; sleeping on the streets, emergency shelters, parks, or even abandoned buildings (Thomas & Chan, 2012). They are exposed to unhealthy lifestyle, violence, homicide, malnutrition, dangerous environment, communicable, and sexual transmitted diseases.
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