Which of the following best describes a downstream intervention to solve the problem of homelessness?
a. Improved use of community resources
b. Increased employment opportunities
c. Increased affordable housing
d. Improved treatment of mental illness
ANS: D
Building on McKinlay's "river" metaphor, McKinlay and Marceau (2000) purport that government and private efforts to address homeless health care problems largely focus on "pulling the bodies out of the river of homelessness." Such downstream interventions aimed at treating or alleviating health care problems, such as physical disease and mental illnesses, are worthy and needed. However, these interventions when used alone are far less adequate in alleviating homeless people's social health problems. To improve the social health of the homeless, it is necessary to go upstream and focus on the primary contributors to homelessness itself (i.e., lack of affordable housing, inadequate income, and insufficient services).
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