title: A web-based personal health information system for homeless youth and young adults.
abstract: Runaway and homeless youth face multiple challenges to their health and experience inadequate access to health care services. This article describes a web-based personal health information system (PHIS) called Healthshack that was specifically designed to improve health care access and health outcomes for runaway and homeless youth at a community-based agency that served homeless youth and young adults up to age 24. The program was developed in partnership with homeless youth and piloted by public health nurses. Preliminary findings from the program indicate that a PHIS is acceptable to runaway and homeless youth and feasible to incorporate into the flow of a youth agency. Thus, a PHIS may be an innovative model of service delivery for other marginalized populations.
authors: School of Nursing, California State University, Sacramento 95819, USA. dang@csus.edu
authors: Michelle T
authors: MT
authors: Dang
authors: Kimberley D
authors: KD
authors: Whitney
authors: Maria Catrina D
authors: MC
authors: Virata
authors: Melissa M
authors: MM
authors: Binger
authors: Elizabeth
authors: E
authors: Miller
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D018453:Homeless Youth; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D012947:Social Work; D014481:United States; D055815:Young Adult