Healthy penis: San Francisco's social marketing campaign to increase syphilis testing among gay and bisexual men

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2199-2203

  Ahrens, Katherine ^a   Kent, Charlotte K ^a   Montoya, Jorge A ^b   Rotblatt, Harlan ^b   McCright, Jacque ^a   Kerndt, Peter ^b   Klausner, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Los Angeles Department of Health Services   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BISEXUAL MALE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PENIS; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MARKETING; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; UNITED STATES; ADULT; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMOSEXUALITY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SAN FRANCISCO; SOCIAL MARKETING; SYPHILIS;

EID: 33845895714     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030474     Document Type: Review

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