Addendum to Health and Wellbeing of Street Children and Youth:  Analysis of Health & Wellbeing Focus Group Data Involving Participants in Accra

Lorraine van Blerk; Wayne Shand; Patrick Shanahan; Janine Hunter

doi:10.20933/100001321

Addendum to Health and Wellbeing of Street Children and Youth: Analysis of Health & Wellbeing Focus Group Data Involving Participants in Accra

Lorraine van Blerk
, Wayne Shand
, Patrick Shanahan
, Janine Hunter

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Abstract

• Participants highlighted that additional vulnerability created by illness and injury, as well as associated costs, can have a devastating impact on the wellbeing of street children and youth in Accra.
• Participants identified contextual factors of poverty as the principal cause of ill health; including poor nutrition, inability to purchase medicines, lack of adequate shelter, exposure to mosquito bites, interrupted sleep, and no safe place to keep clean clothing.
• Maintaining personal hygiene is important to both prevent infection and to avoid being identified as a street child, as young people face discrimination in accessing public health services and obtaining food.

Original language	English
Type	Briefing Paper Addendum
Media of output	Online
Publisher	University of Dundee
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.20933/100001321
Publication status	Published - Jun 2017

Publication series

Name	Growing up on the Streets: Briefing Papers
Publisher	StreetInvest
No.	8A

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Gender
Health
Resilience
Social Networks
Stigmatisation
Sexual Health
Substance Use
Violence

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Addendum to Health and Wellbeing of Street Children and Youth: Analysis of Health & Wellbeing Focus Group Data Involving Participants in Accra

Abstract

Publication series

UN SDGs

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Africa Consultation Report for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment on Children in Street Situations

Health and Wellbeing of Street Children and Youth

Methodology: Longitudinal, Participatory Research with Street Children and Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa

2017 Stephen Fry Awards Public: Engagement Project of the Year

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Addendum to Health and Wellbeing of Street Children and Youth: Analysis of Health & Wellbeing Focus Group Data Involving Participants in Accra

Abstract

Publication series

UN SDGs

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Research output

Africa Consultation Report for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment on Children in Street Situations

Health and Wellbeing of Street Children and Youth

Methodology: Longitudinal, Participatory Research with Street Children and Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Prizes

2017 Stephen Fry Awards Public: Engagement Project of the Year

Cite this