Changes in health and health care utilization following eviction from public housing.

Objectives: This study sought to (1) determine the number of persons evicted from the Durham Housing Authority (DHA) over a 5-year period, (2) explore changes in the number of persons with various medical diagnoses and health care utilization patterns before and after eviction, and (3) examine how many persons evicted from DHA became literally homeless.

Design: This was a pre/post cross-sectional quantitative study.

Sample: Heads of households evicted from DHA properties from January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2017 were included in the study.