Condições sociais e de saúde de pessoas que vivem em situação de rua: revisão integrativa

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The increase in the population living on the streets is a social phenomenon that impacts public health and is associated with a multifactorial analysis of this population. OBJECTIVE: To identify in the literature the social and health conditions of people living on the streets. METHODOLOGY: This is an integrative literature review, carried out using articles found in the SCIELO, Virtual Health Library and PUBMED databases, where 3,073 articles were found, of which 16 articles were selected for the development of this work. RESULTS: It can be observed that the lack of housing results in obstacles to the fulfillment of basic human needs, such as food, access to water and hygiene. And the most common clinical conditions reported were depression, psychosis, tuberculosis, pneumonia, among others. CONCLUSION: However, it was possible to understand real evidence regarding the social and health context of the studied homeless population, demonstrating that social conditions are directly linked to health care