Barriers to Health and Social Services for Street-Based Sex Workers

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 345-361

  Kurtz, Steven P ^a   Surratt, Hilary L ^a   Kiley, Marion C ^a   Inciardi, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug use; Health services; Homelessness; Prostitution; Sex work

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; DRUG USE; EMPLOYMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOUSING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL INSTABILITY; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL WORK; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAINING; UNITED STATES; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PROSTITUTION; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 21644449484     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2005.0038     Document Type: Review

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