Homeless Teenagers: Negative Physical And Reproductive Health

Homeless Teenagers undergo through negative physical and reproductive health because of their situation and the numerous barriers confronted when accessing health care. Teengaers living in poverty have higher rates of chronic health problems, higher incidence of trauma related lesions. Since they are unable to have health care there is a greater chance of having further advanced stages of chronic health issues. Nutritional complications are obesity, food deprivation, and starvation. (“Physical and Reproductive Health”). The reason for obesity problems is because of the lack of nutrients that are in the meals they consume (Bringle 23). For example many homeless teenagers rely on the prepackaged foods served to them in shelter systems or soup kitchens; also because of consuming fast foods.
Compared to teengaers in sempiternal homes homeless teenagers are getting sick four times more often, and are four times more likely to contract asthma because of being surrounded by other homeless teenagers or adults who smoke. As previously mentioned due to the lack of affordable health care majority of the illnesses go untreated and undiagnosed (23). “The barriers to care for homeless youth include confidentiality issues, need for parental insurance, distrusts of adults and professional agencies, denial on the part of the youth of a need for care, and lack of coordinated services and outreach for homeless youth” (“Understanding the Health Care”). Having a stable housing is a foremost constituent for imrpoving a homeless teengaer’s health status (“Understanding the Health Care”). Homeless teengaers also confront with bad oral health (“Physical and Reproductive Health”). The cause of poor oral health is because of lack of nutrition and incapacity of cleaning