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Mortality rate higher for homeless women in Toronto.
2004 MAY 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study of homeless women in Toronto, Canada, found these women have a 10 times higher mortality risk than women in the city's general population.
Angela M. Cheung of the Women's Health Program, University Health Network; and Stephen W. Hwang of the Inner City Health Research Unit, St. Michael's Hospital, both affiliated with the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, presented the results of their study of 1,981 homeless women who used homeless shelters in Toronto over a mean of 2.6 years.
Mortality rates were 515 per 100 000 person-years among homeless women aged 18-44 years in Toronto and 438 per 100 000 person-years among those aged 45-64. The data show that homeless women 18-44 years of age were 10 times more likely to die than women in the general population in Toronto, Cheung and Hwang ...
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