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Gail Gamache, PhD, Robert Rosenheck, MD and Richard Tessler, PhD

Gail Gamache is with the Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, Leeds, Mass. Robert Rosenheck is with the VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center, West Haven, Conn, and the Department of Psychiatry and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. Richard Tessler is a consultant to the Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the VA Medical Center, Leeds, and is with the Social and Demographic Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Gail Gamache, PhD, MIRECC VA Medical Center, 12 Leeds, MA 01053-9764 (e-mail: gail.gamache{at}med.va.gov).

Objectives. This study estimated the proportion of veterans among homeless women and their risk of homelessness relative to that of nonveterans.

Methods. Data came from 2 surveys of homeless women (1 clinical and 1 nonclinical) and 1 survey of domiciled women.

Results. The proportion of veterans (4.4%, 3.1%) among homeless women was greater than the proportion among domiciled women (1.3%, 1.2%). When we computed odds ratios for being a veteran among homeless women compared with nonhomeless women, homeless women were significantly more likely than nonhomeless women to be veterans.

Conclusions. Women veterans are at greater risk for homelessness than are nonveterans. Further study is needed to determine whether increased risks for veterans are a product of military service or reflect volunteers’ self-selection into the armed forces. (Am J Public Health. 2003;93:1132–1136)

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