Primary health care facilities for street children : a study of the street children's requirements in designing community hospitals in Angola

This dissertation studies the delivery of health care to street children. ft investigates the existing street children's facilities and the health system in Ang of a in order to determine an appropriate type of health facilities for the special health needs of these children. The study was based on a review of bibliographic material on street children and related subjects. The findings from this review were tested through a series of interviews with professionals working with street children in Angola and with ~treet children randomly selected from shelters and on the streets in Luanda. The questionnaires were designed for evaluation of the street children's facilities, the health system and to determine street children's preferences and attitudes towards formal institutions in a context where th'e main cause of family disintegration was war. The study concluded that street children's health needs in Angola would be better catered for through independent primary health centres provided with partial in-patient services (temporary sf eeping and eating facilities for children under medical care). These centres would serve mainly children with no access to shelters and those living in shelters without health centres. The study formulates guidelines and presents a design example of the type offacifity proposed.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics

Year dc:date.issued

1997

Author dc:creator

• Cavota, João Joaquim Gunza

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Prinsloo, I C
• Japha, Derek Andrew

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28254

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/28254