title: [Health and disease in single homeless men: a secondary analysis of findings in a deaconess facility in the Federal German Republic].
abstract: Only few empirical investigations on living conditions and health status of single homeless men have been conducted in Germany. The secondary analysis of a sample of 342 homeless men in a welfare hotel was conducted to describe the health status of this group and to gather informations for a possibly higher illness-risk in this group. For this purpose the medical documents and other socio-demographic data were evaluated at one point (one day in February 1985) along the ICD. A relatively high multi-morbidity for the homeless men, especially for the elder ones, could be stated. The results emphasize in etiological perspective the need to take a deeper insight into factors of workload before getting homeless and to strengthen socioepidemiological, socio-therapeutical and political efforts.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für medizinische Soziologie, Medizinischen Fakultät, Albert Ludwig Fakultät, Freiburg.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Stössel
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Locher
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003710:Demography; D004651:Employment; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006304:Health Status; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
vernacular_title: Gesundheit und Krankheit bei alleinstehenden wohnungslosen Männern: Eine Sekundäranalyse von Daten einer diakonischen Einrichtung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.