Abstract

VALENCIA B, Janeth et al. Homeless children: a permanent risk. Rev. Fac. Nac. Salud Pública [online]. 2014, vol.32, n.2, pp.85-91. ISSN 0120-386X.

This study was conducted with homeless children in Medellin, Colombia. OBJECTIVE: to understand the experiences and meanings of the risky situations that homeless children experience every day. METHODOLOGY: a qualitative study with an ethnographic approach. Interviews, observations and field journals were used for data collection. RESULTS :the streets are a risk for children because their circumstances favor the occurrence of physical and emotional damage. This damage depends on the places the children are in, the institutions to which they have access, the people with whom they interact, their occupations and the drugs they use. CONCLUSSION:children believe that the environment in which they live is risk-filled, and this makes them vulnerable people who must protect themselves.

Keywords : groups at risk; risk; risk Factors; homeless children; street.

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