Risk behaviors among Asian women who work at massage parlors in San Francisco: Perspectives from masseuses and owners/managers

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 444-456

  Nemoto, Tooru ^a   Iwamoto, Mariko ^a   Oh, Hyun Joo ^a   Wong, Serena ^a   Nguyen, Hongmai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONDOM; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANAGER; POLICY; PROSTITUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES; WELLBEING;

ASIAN AMERICANS; CONDOMS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MASSAGE; PROSTITUTION; RISK-TAKING; SAN FRANCISCO; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; THAILAND; UNSAFE SEX; VIETNAM;

EID: 27744574329     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: 08999546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2005.17.5.444     Document Type: Article

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