What African-American women know, do, and feel about AIDS: A function of age and education

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 26-36

  Dancy, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; EDUCATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN;

EID: 0029996193     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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