Personal Network Correlates and Predictors of Homelessness for Injection Drug Users in Baltimore, Maryland

Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 263-278

  Latkin, Carl A ^a   Mandell, Wallace ^a   Knowlton, Amy R ^a   Vlahov, David ^a   Hawkins, Wesley ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV; Homelessness; Injectio drug use; Social networks; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032328899     PISSN: 10530789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022943311679     Document Type: Article

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