Healthcare for adolescents in juvenile facilities: increasing needs for adolescent females.
In 1999, 2.4 million youth between the ages of 10 and 17 were arrested. On any given day that year, 133,000 juveniles were detained in long-term detention facilities. Since 1990, there has been a wide disparity in the number of minority youth in the juvenile justice system. In 1999, 41% of youth in this system were African American. Additionally, there has been growth in the percent of arrests of females (29% in 1999) and adolescents younger than 15 years of age (32%).
Children's Hospital, 1 Perkins Square, Akron, Ohio 44308-1602, USA. jfitzgibbon@chmca.org
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D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006176:Gynecology; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011330:Prisons / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology