Schizophrenia and Community Nursing

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The paper discusses the prevalence of schizophrenics in Toronto homeless population and how they are poorly understood by public, or addressed by planners or psych services. The paper mentions the high rates of mental illness and addiction, and miscellaneous fatality. The paper discusses the repeated theme of how Toronto has not observed earlier patterns in Europe or United States where homelessness began earlier, and with similar involvement of schizophrenic vagrants. It also has a section on various roles to be played by community health nursing and nurses, including public education role.

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"Toronto Homelessness and Schizophrenia - Implications for Community Health Nursing. Introduction This paper discusses a less understood aspect of what we refer to as `homelessness' in large numbers of vagrant schizophrenics or other mentally ill persons in Toronto. Several aspects of the problem are explained, before a section addressing the varied contributions that stand to be made by community health nursing and individual nurses. Preparing this paper has given a sense of social problems different from what they first appear, with some insight into past and present public sector failures in helping an extremely vulnerable patient group in a country that purports to take seriously the rights of the under-privileged."

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