Health-seeking behaviors and sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents attending an urban Pediatric Emergency Department

Comprehensive Therapy

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 120-126

  Monroe, Kathy W ^a,b   Jones, Marga ^a   Desmond, Renee ^a   Hook, Edward W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC WARD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALABAMA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 36949028947     PISSN: 00988243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12019-007-0011-3     Document Type: Article

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