Comparing the magnitude of discriminatory attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS and toward people with mental illness in the Hong Kong general population

Health Education Research

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 139-152

  Lau, Joseph T F ^a   Tsui, H Y ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33846358546     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: 14653648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyl058     Document Type: Article

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