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April 1, 2019BMJ OpenOpen Access

Health-related quality of life and prevalence of six chronic diseases in homeless and housed people: a cross-sectional study in London and Birmingham, England

Dan Lewer Robert W Aldridge Dee Menezes Clare Sawyer Paola Zaninotto Martin Dedicoat Imtiaz Ahmed Serena Luchenski Andrew Hayward Alistair Story

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Abstract

While differences in health between housed socioeconomic groups can be described as a 'slope', differences in health between housed and homeless people are better understood as a 'cliff'.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69dad86e7a67537a8ba3ca55 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025192

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