ch 6 severe multiple disadvantage

Joanne McGrath is a PhD Public Health student at Northumbria University, funded though the NIHR School for Public Health Research and the ARC NE & North Cumbria. McGrath states: 'Women experiencing multiple exclusion (homelessness, substance misuse, poor mental health and other co-occurring issues) are a highly vulnerable population. Focusing on life stories of trajectories into social exclusion, my research explores the complexity of contexts in which women experience health inequalities. It includes interviews with 20 women in Gateshead who were, or had experienced, homelessness.' 

Some of the findings are currently being published (McGrath, J. et al., 2023), McGrath, J., Crossley, S.J., Lhussier, M., & Forster, N. (2023) Social capital and women's narratives of homelessness and multiple exclusion in northern England International Journal of Health Equity (under review), and some quotes are used to illustrate the points below.