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Homelessness: cause and effects.

Juan J Canoso
Published in: Clinical rheumatology (2020)
In today's world, wealth accumulates in ever fewer hands. People who live at the margin of the socioeconomic system and are infirm are most prone to become homeless. Many medical and psychiatric problems beset this population. Among them, rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases are, at the same time, illnesses and barriers to care. Healthcare innovations may decrease the lot of these unfortunate. To correct the root of the problem, we should also set our moral compass to a more egalitarian society.
Keyphrases
  • healthcare
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • palliative care
  • affordable care act
  • pain management
  • decision making