Abstract
Street youth often have poor health. A number of studies have been commissioned across contexts to appreciate and address the problem. Conspicuously missing from extant researches about street yout...
Highlights
Research among poor, vulnerable and minority groups in general indicates that health literacy is a vital determinant of health status and health-related inequalities
The paper aimed at elucidating the determinants of health literacy—functional and general health literacy among street youth from the ages of 12 and 24 years in Kumasi Metropolitan area in Ghana
The results show that street youth in Kumasi like many other poor and vulnerable groups elsewhere have limited health literacy (Mathebula & Ross, 2013; Swart-Kruger & Richter, 1997)
Summary
Vulnerable and minority groups in general indicates that health literacy is a vital determinant of health status and health-related inequalities. Much of research efforts on health literacy have concentrated on adults as opposed to that of adolescents and younger adults (Manganello, 2008), and even less among underserved groups such as street youth (Hawkins, Kantayya, & Sharkey-Asner, 2010). Street youth constitute one of the poorest groups in urban settings across the globe especially in developing countries (Ansell, 2005; de Benitez, 2011; Grundling & Grundling, 2005). The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has identified the phenomenon as one of the key development challenges within the Metropolis (KMA, 2010)
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