Publication is a result of a research project of 16 students of the last year of pedagogy at Akademia Swietokrzyska in Kielce, realized under the direction of Father Prof. Jan Sledzianowski.
Research was conducted in January 2006 in 39 shelters of the  St. Brother Albert’s Aid Society in 13 voivodeships. It included 142 women and 1385 men. A diagnostic survey and an anonymous questionnaire, filled in by homeless people were used. Apart from health issues, the research included a detailed profile of respondents: demographic information, family ties, duration of the period of homelessness and its cause.
Father Jan Sledzianowski, “Zdrowie bezdomnych” (“Health of homeless people”), Kielce 2006, p.227.
The book was published and distributed by Zarzad Glowny (Main Board) Towarzystwa Pomocy im. sw. Brata Alberta.