Title
The routine of the street outreach office team: Procedures and care for the homeless
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Fonseca Viegas S.M.d.
Nitschke R.G.
Tholl A.D.
Bernardo L.A.
Potrich T.
Nabarro M.
Publisher(s)
Routledge
Abstract
This study aims to understand the routine of the street outreach office team regarding the attention paid to the homeless. It is a holistic qualitative multiple case study, based on Michel Maffesoli’s Comprehensive and Quotidian Sociology. It was performed using two key informants and 20 professionals of the street outreach office of two capitals in the South of Brazil. For data analysis, we used the Thematic Content Analysis. The itinerancy, the unexpected and the immediacy of homeless people are part of the team's everyday life. The potentialities of the teams are their intra- and intersectoral networks; inter- and transdisciplinarity; and available material/diagnostic resources, whereas the limitations are their inequalities, vulnerabilities and social exclusion, in addition to the specificities of the homeless and the multiple problems that these people live with. Understanding the routine of the street outreach office reveals co-responsibility in unique actions aligned with the needs of the homeless, precisely signalling that health care needs to be integrated into a network so that these individuals can meet the complex challenges of living in unsafe street environments.
Start page
924
End page
935
Volume
16
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud pública, Salud ambiental
Temas sociales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85089865171
PubMed ID
Source
Global Public Health
ISSN of the container
17441692
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by Coordination for Improvement of Higher Level Personnel [Notice/2018 The Scholarship Selection Call of the PhD National].
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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