Mortality in a Cohort of Homeless Adults in Philadelphia
- 4 August 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 331 (5), 304-309
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199408043310506
Abstract
Homeless people are at high risk for death from many causes, but age-adjusted death rates for well-defined homeless populations have not been determined.Keywords
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