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Client-Provider Relationships In A Community Health Clinic For People Experiencing Homelessness: A Critical Ethnography, Abram Oudshoorn
Client-Provider Relationships In A Community Health Clinic For People Experiencing Homelessness: A Critical Ethnography, Abram Oudshoorn
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People who are experiencing homelessness have the highest rates of morbidity, and the lowest age of mortality in Canada. The importance of health care relationships in addressing the needs of people who are experiencing homelessness has been demonstrated. However, two gaps still exist in the literature. Firstly, the dialectical relationship between space/place and social relations has been neglected in the context of health care and homelessness. Secondly, there is a dearth of research on the role of formal and informal policies on the enactment of client-provider relationships in this context. Therefore, in this study three research questions are addressed: 1) …