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C Pearson

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Assessing homeless population size through the use of emergency and transitional shelter services in 1998: results from the analysis of administrative data from nine US jurisdictions.

OBJECTIVES: This study reports findings from the first-ever systematic enumeration of homeless population size using data previously collected from administrative records of homeless services providers in nine US jurisdictions over a one year period. As such, it provides the basis for establishing an ongoing measure of the parameters of the homeless population and for tracking related trends on the use of homeless services over time. METHODS: Each participating jurisdiction collected data through its homeless services management information systems for persons and families who use emergency shelter and transitional housing. The jurisdictions organized the data by a standardized reporting format. These data form the basis for reporting homeless population size, both in raw numbers and as adjusted for each jurisdiction's overall population size, as well as the rate of turnover and average annual length of stay in emergency shelters and transitional housing. RESULTS: Individual jurisdictions had annual rates of sheltered homelessness ranging from 0.1% to 2.1% of their overall population, and 1.3% to 10.2% of their poverty population. Annual population size was 2.5 to 10.2 times greater than the point-prevalent population size. Results are broken down for adults and families. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of homelessness varies greatly among the jurisdictions included in this study, and possible factors for this diversity are discussed. Future reports of this nature will furnish similar series of homeless enumerations across a growing number of jurisdictions, thereby providing a basis for exploring the effects of different contextual factors on local prevalence rates of homelessness.

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Fathers of children born to young urban mothers.

Fathers of babies born to a sample of urban mothers younger than 18 at delivery ranged in age from 14-50 and were, on average, 2-4 years older than the mothers. Among the adolescent women who had given birth to their first child, 28 percent of the partners of black women and 45 percent of the partners of white women were 20 years of age or older. The educational attainment of the fathers was very low, particularly among older whites. At approximately 15 months after the child's birth, 36 percent of the fathers were neither in school nor working. Three-quarters of the pregnancies among the young white mothers and 95 percent of those among the black mothers were unplanned, but only six percent of the white mothers and 16 percent of the black mothers were using a contraceptive at the time of conception. Only 16 percent of the fathers were living with or married to the mother of their child at 15 months after birth. About 90 percent of the fathers had spent time with their child during that period, but frequency of contact declined markedly with time. Overall, 20 percent of the fathers had children by other women.

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Upregulation of epidermal growth factor and its receptor in the kidneys of rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes.

We have studied the acute changes (up to 30 days) in the expression of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and its receptor (EGFr) in the kidneys of adult male Wistar rats made diabetic by a single intravenous injection of streptozotocin (55 mg/kg) using a combination of immunocytochemical staining and in situ hybridization histochemistry. In the absence of insulin treatment, diabetic rats displayed renal growth (hypertrophy and hyperplasia). It was accompanied by an increase in immunostainable EGF within the thick ascending limb (TAL) of the loops of Henle which was apparent within 24 h of the onset of diabetes, reached a peak by day 7 and persisted to the end of the experimental period (day 30). In situ hybridization histochemistry revealed that these changes were preceded by a rapid rise in EGF mRNA in the cells of the TAL, which was highest after 1 day but declined to control levels by day 7. Increased immunostainable EGFr was evident in both the proximal and TAL and in the cortical collecting ducts from day 1. Staining of the proximal tubules declined rapidly after day 1 but that of the TAL and collecting ducts persisted until day 7 and declined thereafter. These results are discussed in light of the role of EGF in the hypertrophy and repair of the diabetic kidney.

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