Community prostate cancer screening.

Health promotion and cancer prevention, including screening, are two important aspects of cancer care. However barriers exist to patients receiving recommended cancer screening procedures. One way to overcome these barriers is through the use of community cancer screening programs.

Birth outcomes of prostituting adolescents.

In 1989, researchers at the University of Washington, Division of Adolescent Medicine, described the multifactorial risks of pregnancy for adolescents engaged in prostitution activities. Factors identified as placing this population at particular risk were transience, substance abuse, violence, sexually transmitted diseases, inadequate (or no) medical care, and poor nutrition. The relationship between such risks in the pregnant adolescent and poor birth outcome has been widely demonstrated.

The medical care of street youth.

Our clinical contacts with street youth support the view that their numbers are growing and that their medical needs are largely neglected. We describe our experience in providing medical care to street youth in Seattle, with attention to their medical presentations and patterns of health care utilization. We address aspects of adolescent street life that are unique to that particular mode of living or importantly formative in the lives of persons drawn to it.