Health insurance coverage, health care-seeking behaviors, and genital chlamydial infection prevalence in sexually active young adults

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 389-396

  Geisler, William M ^a   Chyu, Laura ^b   Kusunoki, Yasamin ^b   Upchurch, Dawn M ^b   Hook III, Edward W ^c,d  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Jefferson County Department of Health   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ADULT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSULTATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RACE; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SCREENING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; ADULT; ALABAMA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33744800535     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.olq.0000194584.80513.4a     Document Type: Conference Paper

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