Rapid Assessment of the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities: An Approach for Timely Community Interventions

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 970-979

  Needle, Richard H ^a   Trotter II, Robert T ^b   Singer, Merrill ^d   Bates, Christopher ^c   Page, J Bryan ^e   Metzger, David ^f   Marcelin, Louis H ^g  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^d HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL   (United States)

^e Department of Biology   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RACE; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSUMER; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; MINORITY GROUP; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TIME; VIROLOGY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK-TAKING; SAMPLING STUDIES; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0037902108     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.6.970     Document Type: Article

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