The vulnerability of young homeless people

Making it matter: improving the health of young homeless people.

Screening for chlamydia trachomatis: barriers for homeless young people.

OBJECTIVE The study explored homeless young people's knowledge and attitudes of Chlamydia trachomatis (Chlamydia) and its screening. DESIGN Semi-structured interviews using focus groups. SETTING An inner city clinic for homeless young people. SUBJECTS Homeless young people aged 16 -26 years. OUTCOMES Perceptions of Chlamydia and its screening. RESULTS 19 males and 6 females aged 16-26...

Stabilizing homeless young people with information and place

In this paper we examine how information—particularly, its organization and presentation—and “space” (i.e., a physical location) can be combined to create a particular “place” (i.e., a location adapted to a particular purpose) for engaging and stabilizing homeless young people, aged 13–25. Over 10 months, we used a participatorydesign research approach to investigate how an alliance of nine ser...

the impact of musical texts on the text recall of young learners of english in isfahan junior high schools

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...

Vulnerability of Homeless People in Tehran, Iran, to HIV, Tuberculosis and Viral Hepatitis

BACKGROUND Homeless people are at risk of contracting communicable infectious diseases, as they indulge in risky behaviours and lifestyle. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of the aforementioned infections and related risk behaviours among homeless people in Tehran. METHODS In this study a convenience sample of 593 homeless individuals was studied. The ELISA method was used...