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• What do the statistics tell us of who are homeless and what are their barriers to healthcare.

Solution:

There are 633,782 people that will go through on any day or night in the U.S. Between 239,403 are families, and 392,945 is one person. This is 16 percent of people that is chronically homeless, and about 10 percent veterans.

What are their barriers to healthcare?

• Exposed to diseases
• Too much or being around violence
• Poor or not any malnutrition,
• Too much harmful weather exposure
• Not able to maintain a healthy diet,
• No good place to store medications or equipment properly

• Using the Vulnerability Model on page 256 and the Framework for Vulnerability (all of chapter 11); create a short case study composite introduction of an underserved individual. Your introduction paragraph will contain the following: gender, age, race/ethnicity, ecological predisposing, enabling and need characteristics, individual predisposing, enabling and need characteristics.

Solution:

The subject for my case study of an individual is a 20 year old male. He is white. He came from a home that included: his father and mother no siblings. His mother has a history of diabetes and father history dont have any illness in his family. Early home life was disruptive with them moving from one place to place due to income, the father was unable to work and the mother relied on Public Assistance and Food Stamps. The children was the only one qualified for Medicaid which provided medical, dental, and vision but the parents was not.