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Addressing the Healthcare Needs of Kansas City's Unhoused
Date/Time: Mar 14, 2024, 03:00 PM to Mar 14, 2024, 04:30 PM
Location: In-person and Virtual
For a litany of social and economic reasons, the U.S. unhoused population sits close to half a million and at approximately 1800 on any given night in Kansas City. A March 2023 study out of the University of Chicago found homelessness is associated with 60 percent greater mortality risk than poverty alone and non-elderly people who have experienced homelessness face 3.5 times higher mortality risk than people who are housed. This IQ Forum offers insights from four subject-matter-experts on the health of unhoused populations regionally and nationally, along with strategies and considerations in addressing this crisis.