The Street Health report 2007

The Street Health Report assaulted in the past year 2007 presents the results of a survey on the health The health of homeless people is very poor. [...] The nightly count of city is unknown, approximately 32,000 different people sleeping in homeless shelters has more than people slept in a Toronto homeless shelter in tripled, from about 1,900 in 1990 6, to about 6,500 in 2002 1. In 2006, about 6,500 individuals stayed in 2006 2. This increase in homelessness is a refl ection a shelter on any given night 2. In 1998, the City of of a steady round of [...] Fifteen years ago, Street Health, a community-based health agency serving homeless people, decided The Street Health Report 2007 presents the to conduct a study to explore the health status of results of a survey on the health status of homeless homeless people and their ability to access the people in Toronto, conducted by Street Health in health care system. [...] However, TD Economics, available information for the general population of the research wing of one of Canada’s largest banks, the City of Toronto i. It also explains how the health released a report in the summer of 2007 which status of homeless people has changed in the noted that even in Toronto, Canada’s “economic 15 years since the 1992 Street Health Report was locomotive”, social inequity an [...] It is possible that the number of people identifying as LGBTT might be under-reported in our survey due The 23% who were born outside of Canada were to the personal nature of sexual orientation and the from a wide range of countries, the most common stigma that surrounds it.