A community-based intervention designed to increase preventive health care seeking among adolescents: The gonorrhea community action project

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 331-337

  VanDevanter, Nancy L ^a   Messeri, Peter ^a   Middlestadt, Susan E ^b   Bleakley, Amy ^a   Merzel, Cheryl R ^a   Hogben, Matthew ^c   Ledsky, Rebecca ^b   Malotte, C Kevin ^d   Cohall, Renee M ^a   Gift, Thomas L ^c   St Lawrence, Janet S ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

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

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; ADULT; CHILD; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SELF EFFICACY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 19944433129     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2003.028357     Document Type: Article

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