"Typhoid Mary" and "HIV Jane": Responsibility, Agency and Disease Prevention

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 40-50

  Chan, Kit Yee ^a   Reidpath, Daniel D ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agency; Health policies and programmes; HIV transmission (sexual); Infectious diseases; Safer sex promotion; Sex workers

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CARRIER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LAW; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; SOCIOLOGY; TYPHOID FEVER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0344845040     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(03)02291-2     Document Type: Note

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