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Article: Quality of health care: the views of homeless youth.(Quality and Quality Improvement)
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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Homeless youth are a medically underserved and vulnerable population in the United States. Based on recent research using a nationally representative sample of U.S. households, homelessness in adolescents ages 12-17 is more common than for adults (Ringwalt et al. 1998). In the United States and worldwide, communities commit resources and policies to address the problems and the needs of homeless youth, but comparatively few resources are placed on attempts to evaluate the impact of these policies and programs on the lives of homeless youth. Having ways to measure quality of care for homeless youth can help health programs establish performance monitoring in order to test ...
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