Factors Leading To Emergency Departments (EDS) Usage In California

Housing insecurity takes multiple forms such as unaffordability, crowding, forced moves, multiple moves, and homelessness.Existing research has linked homelessness to increased emergency department use, but gaps remain in understanding the relationship between different types of housing insecurity and emergency department use; homelessness was associated with a higher mean number of emergency department visits in the year post-baseline and other measures of housing insecurity (unaffordability, crowding, forced moves, and multiple moves) were not associated with greater emergency department use in the year post-baseline in multivariable models.The reason for