Health Sciences 2700A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Street Children, Risk Assessment, Survival Sex
1 Oct 2017
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Homelessness, poverty, and risks to health article summary: it is analytically unhelpful. It promotes a very limited understanding of the actual lives of those children. It deflects attention and adequate resource allocation from the larger population of the poor who live in urban areas: it was manipulated to serve the socio-political agendas of welfare agencies and. Much literature regarding homeless youth and children presents homelessness as the most significant risk factor of poor health. Many scholars question the stereotypical perspective that homeless children are most vulnerable, arguing that poverty carries more risks to children"s health. Taking a risk perspective, further stereotypes and socially excludes children. A significant change of the perspective on street children and homeless youth occurred at the beginning of the 21st century due to a critique of the term street children and the categorization of that term based on lifestyle.
