Homeless people in Nicaragua: a point-in-time count in León
Authors
Suárez Rodríguez, Alexia Cristina; Berrios Ballesteros, Alberto; Bonilla Algovia, Enrique; Vázquez Cabrera, José JuanIdentifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/35721DOI: 10.1002/jid.3303
ISSN: 0954-1748
Date
2018-01-08Funders
Universidad de Alcalá
This research was supported by University of Alcalá in through the “Convocatoria de ayudas de la Universidad de Alcalá para el fomento de acciones de cooperación universitaria al desarrollo”
Bibliographic citation
Suarez, A., Berrios, A., Bonilla, E., & Vázquez, J.J. (2018). Homeless people in Nicaragua: a point-in-time count in León. Journal of International Development, 30(1), 155-158. doi: 10.1002/jid.3303
Keywords
Homelessness
Social exclusion
Point-in-time count
Developing country
Central America
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
Publisher's version
https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3303Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
© John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2017
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
This work analyses the difficulties encounter to determine who should be considered a homeless person in a developing country, and the result of a Point-In-Time (PIT) count of homeless people done in the city of Leon (185,000 inhabitants), Nicaragua. Throughout the PIT count 82 un-duplicated persons living homeless were tallied (76% male; 23% female), 11% were under age. Half of the homeless detected seemed to have problems related to mental health, alcohol and drugs, and/or wounds, dermatological or dental problems. 69% showed a bad physical appearance, 74% had poor personal hygiene, and 80% had the dirty or very dirty clothes
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