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Article: The Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations: Application to Medical Care Use and Outcomes for Homeless People.
- Article from:
- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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Objectives. (1) To present the Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations, a major revision of a leading model of access to care that is particularly applicable to vulnerable populations; and (2) to test the model in a prospective study designed to define and determine predictors of the course of health services utilization and physical health outcomes within one vulnerable population: homeless adults. We paid particular attention to the effects of mental health, substance use, residential history, competing needs, and victimization.
Methods. A community-based probability sample of 363 homeless individuals was interviewed and examined for four study conditions ...