Estimating Mental Illness among the Homeless
The Effects of Choice-Based Sampling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2484677 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Irving Piliavin (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Herb Westerfelt (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Elsa Elliott (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 525-531 |
| Publication date | 1989-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3096816 |
| OpenAlex | W1995472785 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 8 |
The proportion of homeless people who are mentally ill has been a statistic of much interest to scholars and policy makers. James Wright has suggested recently that this statistic can be estimated without significant error, using the proportion of mentally ill among homeless persons who use health clinic services. Wright's assumption was tested employing a sample of homeless people in Minneapolis. The frequency of hospitalization for mental illness among sample members who used health clinic services was significantly greater than that among sample members who did not use clinic services, indicating that Wright's estimate of mental illness among the homeless population may be seriously biased
Environmental health · Mental health · Mental illness · Mentally ill · Population · Psychiatry · Sample (material) · Sampling (signal processing) · Sociology · Statistic · Statistics · Telecommunications · Wright · Computer Science · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Healthcare Policy and Management · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Gerontology
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,34 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2017 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |