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Abstract
Persons without adequate housing or without permanent residence. The concept excludes nomadic peoples.
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24 entry terms
- Homeless Persons
- Shelterless Persons
- Unhoused Persons
- Homeless Person
- Ill Housed Persons
- Ill-Housed Person
- Person, Homeless
- Person, Ill-Housed
- Person, Shelterless
- Person, Unhoused
- Persons, Homeless
- Persons, Ill-Housed
- Persons, Shelterless
- Persons, Unhoused
- Shelterless Person
- Unhoused Person
- Homeless Shelters
- Homelessness
- Shelters for Homeless Persons
- Street People
- Homeless Shelter
- People, Street
- Shelter, Homeless
- Shelters, Homeless
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6 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, education, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology, statistics & numerical data.
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Indexing Annotation
not for nomads; for issues concerning health, coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
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History Note
2023 (1996)
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Previous Indexing
- Transients and Migrants (1966-1985)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Ill-Housed Persons. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006703. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006703
- Ill-Housed Persons. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29325697