Recuento censal nocturno de las personas de la calle que circundan por las parroquias El Llano y Sagrario de la ciudad de Mérida

Abstract

The a im of t his s tudy was to de scribe psychosocial c onditions a nd quality of life in homeless p eople a round El Llano and S agrario c ounties i n M erida c ity. S tructured i nterviews a nd observational t echniques were a pplied in order to register 129 homeless people that were living on streets, most of them were men, ages between 18 and 82 years old, Venezuelan, singles, without children, and with elementary and high school educational level. Some of them practice informal jobs but others do not have any job. Almost half of them reported health problems without specific treatment. An important number of persons (41. 9%) left their homes because family problems, followed by drugs and/or alcohol abuse. It was shown the urgent requirement of policies formulation in order to solve this problem