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UCLA study finds a need for services that help homeless youth obtain health insurance
12-22-2006 · EurekAlert!Youth with a history of homelessness are a vulnerable population at high risk for negative health outcomes. The findings suggest that facilitating health insurance coverage for them may lead to increased use of outpatient care services, which may prevent costly emergency room services for conditions that could have been treated in the outpatient setting. There is a need for interventions geared toward this group in facilitating health insurance coverage.
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