The public health significance of prior homelessness: findings on multimorbidity and mental health from a nationally representative survey
Dr Natasha Chilman is a Research Associate and Teaching Fellow in Population Mental Health at King’s College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/natasha-chilman).
In this seminar, Natasha will present a study from her recently completed PhD research, which explored inequities in mental health and multiple conditions for people who have previously experienced homelessness. Using secondary data from nationally representative surveys of people living in private households in England, she examined self-reported histories of homelessness and associations with anxiety, depression, physical conditions, alcohol and substance dependence, and multimorbidity (co-occurring health conditions). Natasha will discuss the key findings from this study, how people with lived experience of homelessness were involved in this work, and how these findings are being translated into policy and practice.
You can read the paper this seminar is based on here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045796024000659