ABSTRACT – Homelessness is associated with an immense health burden and limited access to adequate healthcare. This paper studies the effects of Mobile Street Clinics on healthcare usage among people experiencing homelessness in Brazil. Exploiting unique administrative data in a staggered difference-in-differences setting, I find that Mobile Street Clinics strongly and persistently increase primary care usage and community-based ambulatory care usage among the homeless but do not improve healthcare continuity. These results provide first evidence for the effectiveness of homeless interventions in developing countries and have important policy implications for tackling the health burden of homelessness.
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Increasing healthcare usage among the homeless: Evidence from Mobile Street Clinics in Brazil
This paper shows that Mobile Street Clinics strongly and persistently increase primary care usage and community-based ambulatory care usage among the homeless but do not improve healthcare continuity