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- Title
Juvenile Justice System Involved Youth, Access to Preventative Healthcare, and Its Impact on the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model: A Pilot Study.
- Authors
Hancock, Katy; Terry, Miranda Sue
- Abstract
Youth who are involved with the juvenile justice system have worse health outcomes compared to those who are not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child framework draws attention to the connection between health and academic achievement. The purpose of this pilot study was to create a survey instrument that could be used in future research to study preventative health service utilization, access to, and barriers in the delinquent juvenile population. It is hoped future use of this survey will help to address the gap in research in regard to preventative health services utilization among juvenile justice-involved youth. An improvement in provision of, access to, and utilization of preventative health care services is an important issue that may serve to prevent delinquency and improve general community health. There were no significant correlations between the barriers parents faced in accessing age appropriate screenings and juvenile delinquent behaviors, nor between the barriers parents faced in accessing age appropriate vaccinations and juvenile delinquent behaviors. However, as a pilot study, the results are not generalizable and more research is needed in this area to truly understand the relationship between preventative health service utilization and juvenile justice-involved youth.
- Subjects
JUVENILE justice administration; MEDICAL care; PREVENTIVE medicine
- Publication
Kentucky SHAPE JOURNAL, 2019, Vol 56, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
1071-2577
- Publication type
Article