Causes of Child and Youth Homelessness in Developed and Developing Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

A systematic compilation of children and youth's reported reasons for street involvement is lacking. Without empirical data on these reasons, the policies developed or implemented to mitigate street involvement are not responsive to the needs of these children and youth.

Objective

To systematically analyze the self-reported reasons why children and youth around the world become street-involved and to analyze the available data by level of human development, geographic region, and sex.

Data sources

Electronic searches of Scopus, PsychINFO, EMBASE, POPLINE, PubMed, ERIC, and the Social Sciences Citation Index were conducted from January 1, 1990, to the third week of July 2013. We searched the peer-reviewed literature for studies that reported quantitative rea

SUBMITTER: Embleton L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5497301 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature