A risk profile comparison of runaway and non-runaway youth. | Zendy

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A risk profile comparison of runaway and non-runaway youth.

Author(s) -

Gary L. Yates,

Richard G. MacKenzie,

Julia Pennbridge,

E. Cohen

Publication year - 1988

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.78.7.820

Subject(s) - psychiatry , medicine , suicide prevention , public health , depression (economics) , medical emergency , occupational safety and health , poison control , demography , family medicine , psychology , nursing , sociology , pathology , economics , macroeconomics

All initial visits (N = 765) to an outpatient medical clinic during calendar year 1985 were analyzed. Six hundred and fifty-five of these visits made by non-runaway youth were compared to 110 visits made by runaways. Based on data from the Childrens Hospital Adolescent Risk Profile Interview, runaway street youth are at greater risk for a wide variety of medical problems and of health-compromising behaviors including suicide and depression, prostitution, and drug use. The implications for public health and social policy are discussed.

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