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<div class="meta-date"><span class="ppub"><span class="month">December </span><span class="day">27, </span><span class="year">2016</span></span></div>
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<h1 class="meta-article-title ">Improving Health Care for Homeless People</h1>
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<span class="wi-fullname brand-fg"><a href="http://jamanetwork.com/searchresults?author=Howard+K.+Koh&q=Howard+K.+Koh" target="_blank">Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH<sup>1</sup></a></span>; <span class="wi-fullname brand-fg"><a href="http://jamanetwork.com/searchresults?author=James+J.+O%e2%80%99Connell&q=James+J.+O%e2%80%99Connell" target="_blank">James J. O’Connell, MD<sup>2</sup></a></span>
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<span class="meta-citation-journal-name">JAMA. </span><span class="meta-citation"> 2016;316(24):2586-2587. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.18760</span>
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<a class="article-section-id-anchor" id="148743129"></a><p class="para"><span class="drop-cap">A</span>ddressing the medical
issues of homeless people is the health equity challenge of our time.
The most recent US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD<a href="https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/5162/2015-ahar-part-2-estimates-of-homelessness/">) report on homelessness</a>,
published in 2015, estimated that about 564 000 homeless people in the
United States live in shelters and on the streets. This figure, based on
a point-in-time snapshot on a single night each January, may well be an
underestimate, given varying definitions of homelessness, peripatetic
populations, and the lack</p></div></div></div></div></body></html>