Health professionals call for broad public health approach to tent cities
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English - August 30, 2018 13:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Tent cities are often closed down due to concerns over fire safety. More than 100 members of the public health community have written an open letter calling for a shift from using public health as a rationale to displace tent cities to adopting a public health approach to reduce safety concerns. Professor Bernie Pauly is a professor of nursing at the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research.