Communicable Disease prevention and control in shelters and emergency winter response shelters guidance:
- The Homeless and Emergency Winter Response Shelter Health Handbook For Providers can be used by provider staff. The resource has practical information about diseases that shelters may encounter, as well as information about prevention, early identification and control of communicable diseases and other health hazards in shelter settings.
- Clients of homeless shelters and emergency winter response shelters are vulnerable to a number of health conditions as outlined in the following report: Homelessness and Health Outcomes: What are the associations?
- The Public Health Toolkit for Encampment Responses provides approaches to supporting the health of encampment residents. It is based on a summary of experiences of Public Health Officials involved in encampments which occurred in B.C. between 2014 and 2019.
