Social and environmental factors affecting child health An Anthropological Study in Helwan Regio

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The issue of street children, present in Egypt long ago through begging, turned to a growing social phenomenon with high volume and proportion in urban areas, which may be due to the imbalance in economic structure in Egyptian society through GATT and the effects of globalization and privatization policies which resulted in an increase in unemployment and the increase in immigration to other Arabic countries, family disintegration and the high divorce rate. Egypt does not differ from other continents where children suffer the same fate. There is no social and health care and disease prevention, environmental protection and the rest of society from the spread of these diseases due to the proliferation of large numbers of street children which spreads rapidly in poor areas and in urban communities, and there in lies the problem in increasing the proportion of such phenomenon .