Review : School age prostitution: an issue for children's nurses?

Abstract

■ Creating supportive environments for street working children requires children's nurses to be knowledgeable.

■ Strengthening community action requires awareness of existing groups who currently work with child prostitutes.

■ Nurses need to develop counselling skills to enable child prostitutes to make healthy choices

■ Building healthy public policies challenges nurses to mediate with politicians regarding policies which may adversely affect children.

■ A health service, re-oriented to improve the care of school age prostitutes, necessitates collaboration with health, community and charity workers.

Keywords

Advocacy Enable Health promotion Mediate Ottawa Charter School-age prostitution.

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