2021 Journal of health care for the poor and underserved
* Faith-based Health and Social Services for People Experiencing Homelessness in the United States: A Scoping Review of the Literature.
- Across the U.S., faith communities play a crucial role in delivering services to people experiencing homelessness (PEH). However, factors influencing faith communities' provision of health and social services to PEH and related outcomes are unclear. The purpose of this scoping review of the literature, therefore, was to investigate the provision of health and social services for PEH by faith communities across the U.S.: how those services are coordinated, funded, and sustained, and associated outcomes. Eleven articles met inclusion criteria and were included in this review. Findings suggest that while faith communities provide critical services for PEH, further research is necessary in order to understand how, when, and with whom they work; how programs are funded and sustained; and outcomes associated with these services. We suggest that academic-community partnerships may enhance our understanding of faith-based services for PEH and increase capacity of faith communities for providing them.
Overview of noun factor
The noun factor has 7 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (31) factor -- (anything that contributes causally to a result; "a number of factors determined
the outcome")
2. (8) component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient -- (an abstract part of something;
"jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody
and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an
effective ingredient of a speech")
3. (4) divisor, factor -- (one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another
integer; "what are the 4 factors of 6?")
4. (1) agent, factor, broker -- (a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a
commission)
5. factor -- (any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together)
6. factor -- (an independent variable in statistics)
7. gene, cistron, factor -- ((genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide
chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the
exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors")
Overview of verb factor
The verb factor has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) factor, factor in, factor out -- (resolve into factors; "a quantum computer can factor the
number 15")
2. factor -- (be a contributing factor; "make things factor into a company's profitability")
3. factor, factor in, factor out -- (consider as relevant when making a decision; "You must factor
in the recent developments")
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