How COVID-19 has impacted access to healthcare and social resources among individuals experiencing homelessness in Canada: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In Canada, individuals experiencing homelessness (IEH) rely on public health and social services for healthcare, food and basic necessities. The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected marginalised populations, in part by impacting their access to such services. We performed a scoping review to identify from the published literature how access to services has changed for Canadian IEH during the pandemic.

Data sources

OVID Medline, Web of Science, Sociological Abstracts, CINAHL and OVID EmCare databases, and websites for the Salvation Army, Homeless Hub, Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, Canadian Network for the Health and Housing of People Experiencing Homelessness and BC Centre for Disease Control.

Study design

We used the scoping review met

SUBMITTER: Maretzki M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9344594 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature