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.

Eviction as a Disruptive Factor in Health Care Utilization: Impact on Hospital Readmissions and No-show Rates.

Background: Residential eviction is a component of housing instability that negatively affects physical and mental health, but the effect of eviction on health care utilization, specifically hospital readmissions and outpatient no-show rates, is not known.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of health care utilization of individuals evicted from public housing between January 2013 and December 2017, investigating hospital readmissions and no-show rates one year before and after eviction.

Results: 131 individuals who had been evicted had one year of data pre-and post-eviction.