Salimah Z. Shariff

Oct 16, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Richard Booth |Salimah Z. Shariff |Brooke Carter |Stephen Hwang

INTRODUCTION The opioid toxicity epidemic in Canada has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Canadians during the past two decades [1]. From 2017 to 2021 alone, the national rate of apparent opioid-related overdose deaths nearly doubled from 10.7 to 20.7 deaths per 100 000 population [2]. One segment of the population disproportionally impacted by the opioid epidemic are people experiencing homelessness (PEH) [3-6].

May 8, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | Salimah Z. Shariff |Jennifer Reid |Andrew S. Boozary |Richard Booth

Introduction Although numerous reports documented high rates of SARS-CoV-2 infections and complications among people experiencing homelessness early in the COVID-19 pandemic,1 an understanding of how this population fared as the pandemic progressed is limited. We compared the rates of SARS-CoV-2 testing and complications across 6 waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada, between individuals recently experiencing homelessness, low-income residents, and the general population.

Mar 28, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Richard Booth |Cheryl Forchuk |Annie Yang |Salimah Z. Shariff

Implications for practice The findings of this study suggest that supported housing arrangements like the CHO can potentially influence higher usage of specific health services that are person-centred (i.e., primary health care and specialist physician service use), and do not significantly effect incidental system use, including intensity of emergency department use.