STD risk assessment and chlamydia screening: What's missing?

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 183-185

  Handsfield, H Hunter ^a,b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDIASIS; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0033959487     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-3797(99)00150-6     Document Type: Editorial

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