Harm reduction through housing first: an assessment of the Emergency Warming Centre in Inuvik, Canada

• Main Authors: Young, Michael, Manion, Kathleen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Harm Reduction Journal 2017
• Subjects: Harm reduction; Homeless persons; Arctic; Canada; Inuvik; New Zealand
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10613/11678; https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-016-0128-8; https://doi.org/10.25316/IR-6038; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-016-0128-8

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Background: This research examines the effectiveness of an Emergency Warming Centre (EWC) in Inuvik, Canada, at reducing rates of morbidity and mortality for homeless persons with concurrent di...