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PTSD IS 414%+ HIGHER AMONG HOMELESS IN USA THAN EUROPE, ACCORDING TO WORLD-SURVEY, SUGGESTS THAT SAFETY-NET HELPS ALLAY DISTRESS

 There is a type of social research (as well as research re non-humans) called systematic analysis, which is by degree quite like what is called 'meta-analysis'=> the gist of such study is to determine the overall effect of a-factor/factors given a large number of studies, usually published studies. I note from EBSCO Academic database a systematic review that evaluates the world-/global- prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); I notice well that there is variety in the determined result across the planet for homeless people, with Australia was 67%, the USA 27%+, and much-lower in European studies 6%+. I do not think that the variance in resultingly reported PTSD is consistent enough to warrant a notion that in-this-world, the rate of PTSD among the homeless is comparable-directly to that of the United States: rather what I sense is that social-conditions, in particular the-social-response, to homeless condition has much to do with the resulting traumatic-conditi...