Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:112-113
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
The homeless mentally ill in Tucson: implications of early findings
LL Bachrach, JM Santiago, MR Berren and MT Hannah
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Catonsville, MD.
Homeless persons who received emergency psychiatric screening in a public
general hospital exhibited patterns of gross geographic mobility. They did
not uniformly avail themselves of community services, such as soup
kitchens, and there were marked sex differences within the sample.