While commending health-care workers who have adapted to the needs of the homeless by bringing mobile services to the kerbside and clinics to hostels, The Lancet comments: "The paucity of validated research involving homeless people hampers efforts to expand services and improve uptake. This lack of data must be addressed if homeless people are to share the same health advances enjoyed by society in general. With warnings of a severe winter ahead, the challenge is not to greet homelessness with heartlessness, but to recognise that health is part of the problem, and so can become part of the solution."
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