The purchasing specifications were reviewed in a year-long series of vetting sessions by State Medicaid and public health officials, health care providers and managed care organization representatives. We encourage homeless health care advocates to use this model contract language as a basis for state and local advocacy. Read the June issue to learn about strategies for eliciting behavioral change which clinicians and their homeless clients are using to deal with psychoactive substance dependency, diabetes management and the prevention of sexually transmitted disease. Each quarter, we distribute the results of an extensive database search for the latest research directly related to health care and homelessness. The first issue highlighted a sample of homeless health care research findings reported in 1999 - 2000.
Subsequent issues summarize research findings by quarter.
Subscriptions to HCH Research are free by e-mail. Investigators are invited to submit abstracts of ongoing, presented, or published research addressing homelessness issues for inclusion in this database.