Summary table of included studies from systematic peer review search
Number | Authors | Year | Title | Countries | Topic/intervention | Aims of the review |
1 | Aidala et al26 | 2016 | Housing status, medical care, and health outcomes among people living with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review | USA, France, Spain, Italy, Finland and South Korea | HIV treatment | To review the literature on the role of housing status for medical care and health outcomes among people with HIV infection. |
2 | Brown et al61 | 2016 | Systematic review of barriers and facilitators to accessing and engaging with mental health care among at-risk young people | Australia, UK, USA, Canada | Mental health services | To review the literature on the barriers and facilitators to accessing and engaging with mental healthcare among young people from potentially disadvantaged groups. |
3 | Crock57 | 2016 | Access to healthcare services for people living with HIV experiencing homelessness - a literature review | USA, Canada, Australia | Community nursing | To review the literature on strategies that enhance the ability of people living with HIV who are homeless to access healthcare services, in particular community nursing services. |
4 | Dawson and Jackson44 | 2013 | The primary health care service experiences and needs of homeless youth: a narrative synthesis of current evidence | USA, Australia | Primary healthcare | To review the literature on access to primary healthcare services for homeless youth. |
5 | Elliott59 | 2013 | Meeting the health care needs of street-involved youth | Canada, USA | Full spectrum healthcare | To reviews reasons why youth turn to the street, risks of the ‘street economy’ and barriers to healthcare. |
6 | Hamilton et al60 | 2018 | A systematic review of active case-finding strategies for tuberculosis in homeless populations | USA, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Poland, Spain | Tuberculosis (TB) | To review the literature to determine the effectiveness of active case finding for TB control, and identify strategies to improve uptake of screening and the diagnostic pathway in homeless populations in low-burden and medium-burden settings. |
7 | Harris and Rhodes25 | 2013 | Hepatitis C treatment access and uptake for people who inject drugs: a review mapping the role of social factors | Not specified | Hepatitis C treatment | To review the literature on barriers to hepatitis C treatment access, uptake and completion for people who inject drugs. |
8 | Hudson et al39 | 2016 | Challenges to access and provision of palliative care for people who are homeless: a systematic review of qualitative research | USA, Canada, Sweden, UK, Australia | Palliative care | To review published qualitative research exploring challenges to palliative care access and provision. |
9 | Islam and Conigrave75 | 2007 | Assessing the role of syringe dispensing machines and mobile van outlets in reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk groups of injecting drug users (IDUs): a review | Norway, the Netherlands, Italy, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, USA, Canada, Russia, Bulgaria, Lithuania | Needle exchange | To review the effectiveness of syringe dispensing machines and mobile van or bus-based needle syringe programmes in making services accessible to hard-to-reach and high-risk groups of IDUs. |
10 | John and Law72 | 2011 | Addressing the health needs of the homeless | UK and other not specified | Nursing | To review the literature on the health needs of homeless people and what role can nurses play in addressing homeless people’s health needs. |
11 | Jones et al71 | 2009 | Cardiovascular disease risk among the poor and homeless – what we know so far | Not specified | Cardiovascular care | To review the literature detailing the relationships between poverty, homelessness and cardiovascular disease. |
12 | Kaduszkiewicz et al73 | 2017 | The medical treatment of homeless people | Not specified | Primary and inpatient hospital care | To review the medical treatment of homeless people in Germany. |
13 | Klop et al52 | 2018 | Palliative care for homeless people: a systematic review of the concerns, care needs and preferences, and the barriers and facilitators for providing palliative care | USA, Canada, Sweden, UK, Australia, Ireland | Palliative care | To review the evidence of the concerns and palliative healthcare needs for homeless people, as well as the conditions for delivering good quality palliative care for the target group. |
14 | Lamb et al54 | 2012 | Access to mental health in primary care: a qualitative meta-synthesis of evidence from the experience of people from “hard to reach” groups | UK, Finland, Switzerland | Mental health treatment in primary care | To review and understand barriers to mental health treatment for eight socially excluded groups including the homeless. |
15 | Luchenski et al62 | 2018 | What works in inclusion health: overview of effective interventions for marginalised and excluded populations | Not specified | Healthcare, social care, housing | To review effective interventions that directly affect health (eg, pharmacology, counselling, screening, prevention) or the wider determinants of health (eg, housing, social support, training and education, employment, crime and recidivism). |
16 | Lutge et al79 | 2015 | Incentives and enablers to improve adherence in tuberculosis | USA, Timor-Leste, South Africa | Tuberculosis | To review the effects of material incentives and enablers given to patients undergoing diagnostic testing for TB, or receiving drug therapy to prevent or cure TB. |
17 | Martens76 | 2009 | Vulnerable categories of homeless patients in Western societies: experience serious barriers to health care access | Not specified | Primary care, mental healthcare, addiction treatment | To review healthcare access for especially vulnerable categories of homeless persons. |
18 | Robards et al53 | 2018 | How marginalized young people access, engage with, and navigate health-care systems in the digital age: systematic review | UK, USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Portugal | Full spectrum healthcare | To review what is known about marginalised young people’s access to, engagement with, and navigation of the health system in the digital age. |
19 | Sumalinog et al55 | 2017 | Advance care planning, palliative care, and end-of-life care interventions for homeless people: a systematic review | USA, Canada, Sweden | Shelter-based palliative care programme, completion of advance directive, professional support home services | To review the evidence surrounding advance care planning, palliative care and end-of-life care interventions for homeless persons. |
20 | Tankimovich78 | 2013 | Barriers to and interventions for improved tuberculosis detection and treatment among homeless and immigrant populations: a literature review | USA, UK, Spain, Israel, the Netherlands, Ethiopia | Tuberculosis detection and treatment | To review barriers to the detection and treatment of TB in immigrant and homeless populations in the USA and to review effective interventions for improved detection and treatment. |
21 | Wallace et al63 | 2018 | Community boundary spanners as an addition to the health workforce to reach marginalised people: a scoping review of the literature | USA, UK, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand | Lay person patient navigators/peer workers/link workers | To review the literature on the role played, in health service delivery and health literacy development in high-income countries, by community-based lay persons. |
22 | Weber et al56 | 2017 | Understanding the health of veterans who are homeless: a review of the literature | USA | Public health nursing | To review the literature of what is known about the health of homeless veterans. |
23 | White et al65 | 2016 | Access to diabetes care for populations experiencing homelessness: an integrated review | USA, Canada | Diabetes care | To review the literature to identify barriers and facilitators to accessing diabetes care and managing diabetes for homeless populations. |
24 | White and Newman40 | 2015 | Access to primary care services among the homeless: a synthesis of the literature using the equity of access to medical care framework | USA | Primary care | To review the literature to identify barriers and facilitators to primary care access among the homeless. |