Healing home
Subtitle: health and homelessness in the life stories of young women
By: Vanessa Oliver
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781442645318; 9781442613447
Subjects: Health and hygiene; Health services accessibility; Homeless women; Case studies; Homelessness; Social conditions; Biography; Women
Description: "Based on research that was awarded the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness. Vanessa Oliver employs an innovative methodology that blends sociology and storytelling practices to investigate these women's access to health services, their understandings of health and health care delivery, and their health-seeking behaviours. Through their life stories, Oliver demonstrates how personal and social experiences shape health outcomes.

In contrast to many previous studies that have focused on the deficits of these young people, Healing Home is both youth-centric and youth-positive in its approach: by foregrounding the narratives of the women themselves, Oliver empowers a sub-section of the population that traditionally has not had a voice in determining policies that shape their realities. Applying a strong, articulate, and systemic analysis to on-the-ground narratives, Oliver is able to offer fresh, incisive recommendations for health and social service providers with the potential to effect real-world change for this marginalized population."--Pub. desc.
Notes: DON173/2014

Includes bibliographical references (p.[214]-267) and index.