Healthcare for People Experiencing Homelessness

Healthcare provided to people experiencing homelessness (PEH) represents a challenge for public healthcare systems at the system level, but also to professionals who provide the outpatient healthcare to PEH (Lester, Wright, & Heath, 2002). The usual healthcare systems settings aim at the majority population, which makes it difficult to reach by PEH. Social exclusion leads to underutilization of healthcare by these people (Nagy-Borsy et al., 2021) and results in seeking medical help only in urgent situations (Luchenski et al., 2018). These issues on both the demand and supply side of healthcare lead to underutilization of healthcare, repeated emergency care (Pleace, 2023), and high mortality among PEH (Aldridge et al., 2018). What makes this policy brief important is the fact that there is a lack of evidence on the health and healthcare of PEH provided by evaluations (Omerov, Craftman, Mattsson, & Klarare, 2020).