Health, Housing, and Homelessness
An Ethnographic Understanding of Housing Instability and Social Care
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Health, Housing, and Homelessness
An Ethnographic Understanding of Housing Instability and Social Care
About this book
Examining the fundamental relationship between housing and health, this perceptive volume illuminates how the health of those living with housing instability is affected by the day-to-day issues they face.
Based on a series of interviews with both those affected by this issue and health and social care practitioners, as well as ethnographic observations at multiple sites of a health care centre, this book examines how housing instability shapes both the health services that people are able to access and their own approach to self-care. It highlights how housing instability is inextricably linked to poorer health outcomes, and suggests how individual, collective, and institutional practices can be reimagined to address the disparity between those with and without a stable home.
This book will interest scholars and students across the Sociology of Health and Illness, Social Work, Public Health, and Social Policy, as well as practitioners in this field.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction: Telling visual stories about health and housing
- 2 How space and time shape caring in primary health care
- 3 Integrating health and social care
- 4 How people experiencing housing instability look after themselves
- 5 Looking after other humans and non-humans
- 6 Solitude, loneliness, and the longing for connection
- 7 Collapsing past, present, and future
- 8 Conclusion: Reimagining care to improve health for people experiencing housing instability
- Index