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Minnesota Statistics
Minnesota Research
National Research

Minnesota Statistics

• Wilder: Housing and Homelessness
  Wilder Research leads the Minnesota Homeless Study, which provides the most comprehensive data and analysis on the reasons Minnesotans are homeless, and barriers to obtaining and maintaining safe and stable housing.
• Minnesota Homeless Management Information System: Minnesota Dashboards
  Minnesota’s Homeless Management Information System is a web-based database used by over 220 homeless service organizations across the state of Minnesota to collect client-level data on households experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
• Minnesota Drug Overdose and Substance Use Surveillance Activity
  MDH launched MNDOSA to track hospital-treated cases of substance misuse in near-real time.
• Drug Overdose Dashboard
  Drug overdose data from MDH.

Minnesota Research

• Health Affairs: COVID-19 Vaccination Of People Experiencing Homelessness And Incarceration In Minnesota
  Article about vaccination completion rates among the general population and people incarcerated in state prisons were substantially higher than those among people experiencing homelessness or jail incarceration, June, 2022.
• StarTribune: Minnesota's 2021 death toll well above expected total despite vaccine
  Article from the StarTribune about COVID-19 deaths in Minnesota, March 10, 2022.
• Simpson Housing Services: Minnesota Homeless Memorial March and Service
  Hundreds of community members come together for the Homeless Memorial March and Service to remember people who have died while homeless. 

National Research

Cost studies

• PubMed: Clinical impact, costs, and cost-effectiveness of hospital-based strategies for addressing the US opioid epidemic: a modelling study
  Lancet, Nov. 30, 2021.

Mortality studies

• PubMed: All-cause and cause-specific mortality among men released from state prison, 1980-2005
  Am J Public Health, Oct. 15, 2008.
• PubMed: Increased Mortality Among Older Veterans Admitted to VA Homelessness Programs
  Psychiatr Serv, Dec. 1, 2015.
• PubMed: Mortality after prison release: opioid overdose and other causes of death, risk factors, and time trends from 1999 to 2009
  Ann Intern Med, Nov 5, 2015.
• PubMed: Mortality among homeless adults in Boston: shifts in causes of death over a 15-year period
  JAMA Intern Med, Feb. 11, 2013.
• JAMA: Mortality Among People Experiencing Homelessness in San Francisco During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  JAMA, Mar 10, 2022.
• PubMed: Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada: 11 year follow-up study
  BMJ, Oct. 26, 2009.
• PubMed: Mortality and Cause of Death in Younger Homeless Veterans
  Public Health Rep, Feb. 8, 2018.
• National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC): Homeless Mortality

Health and homelessness studies

• PubMed: Street-based STD testing and treatment of homeless youth are feasible, acceptable and effective.
  J Adolesc Health, Mar. 2006.
• PubMed: Safety and Effectiveness of Same-Day Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae Screening and Treatment among Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Homeless Youth in Los Angeles, California and New Orleans, Louisiana
  Sex Transm Dis., Jan. 2020.
• PubMed: Recommendations for Implementing Hepatitis C Virus Care in Homeless Shelters: The Stakeholder Perspective
  Hepatol Commun, May 2020.
• PubMed: Clients' perceptions of barriers and facilitators to implementing hepatitis C virus care in homeless shelters
  BMC Infect Dis, May 29, 2020.

• Wilder: Minnesota Homeless Study
• Wilder: Homelessness on American Indian Reservations