Interventions for promoting reintegration and reducing harmful behaviour and lifestyles in street-connected children and young people

Evidence-Based Child Health

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1140-1272

  Coren, Esther ^a   Hossain, Rosa ^a   Pardo, Jordi Pardo ^b   Veras, Mirella Ms ^b   Chakraborty, Kabita ^c   Harris, Holly ^a   Martin, Anne J ^a  

^a CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Harm Reduction *Life Style *Risk Taking Homeless Youth education; psychology Adolescent Child Child, Preschool Female Humans Male Young Adult; *Life Style; *Risk Taking; Adolescent; Child; Child, Preschool; education; psychology ; Female; Harm Reduction; Homeless Youth ; Humans; Male; Young Adult

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISABILITY; ETHNICITY; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIFESTYLE; MENTAL HEALTH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENTHOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STREET CONNECTED CHILD; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

*HARM REDUCTION; *LIFE STYLE; *RISK-TAKING; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOMELESS YOUTH [*EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGY]; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOMELESS YOUTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WORLD HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880370940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15576272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ebch.1923     Document Type: Article

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