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Homelessness, type of homelessness, and risk of cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 116 studies comprising 2,563,633 homeless people and 129,292,553 population controls

2025-04-22 public and global health Title + abstract only
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BackgroundHomelessness might increase the risk of premature mortality, but evidence is scarce, imprecise, and is mostly limited to rough sleepers as opposed to more common types of homelessness. MethodsPublished studies were retrieved through a systematic search of MEDLINE, Embase PsycINFO and Scopus from inception to December 2024. Unpublished data were identified from open-access data archives. We used random-effects meta-analysis to combine effect estimates from published and unpublished dat...

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