Mental Health: A Powerful Predictor of Sexual Health?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-14

  Aral, Sevgi O ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIOECONOMICS;

HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 0347417000     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.OLQ.0000109666.55711.C2     Document Type: Editorial

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