The health of the street child—the whole says more a synergy of research

Abstract

To street children the street is a cul de sac. Street children arrive on the street with a physiological as well as a psychological backlog. A scrutiny and synergy of the research that were done on the health of street children revealed a clinical picture of their negative state of well-being of lowered immunity, morbidity, ill-health and hightened susceptibility to serious diseases, e.g. tuberculosis, hepatitis, meningitis or AIDS. Street children, if not ‘sick’, are psychologically and physically neglected to such an extent that he or she cannot develop adequately. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.