Knowledge about sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses in a representative sample of adults

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 230-233

  Grulich, Andrew E ^a   De Visser, Richard O ^b   Smith, Anthony M A ^b   Rissel, Chris E ^c   Richters, Juliet ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BISEXUALITY; BLOODBORNE VIRUS INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONDYLOMA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GONORRHEA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS C; HERPES; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INCOME; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MALE; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SAMPLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELEPHONE; VIRUS INFECTION; WART VIRUS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; DEMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 0038416071     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2003.tb00813.x     Document Type: Article

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