Injection drug use, multiple hepatitis virus infections, and migration: A German study

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1353-1365

  Reimer, Jens ^a,e   Lorenzen, Juergen ^a   Baetz, Bernhard ^b   Fischer, Benedikt ^c   Rehm, Juergen ^c   Backmund, Markus ^d   Haasen, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Psychiatric Hospital Guetersloh   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Klinikum Schwabing   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Drug user treatment; Ethnicity; Injection drug use; Social marginalization; Viral hepatitis

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; GERMANY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PILOT STUDY; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 34548851194     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10826080701205760     Document Type: Article

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