Puerto Rican injection drug users: Prevention implications in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico

Evaluation and Program Planning

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-73

  López, Luz Marilis ^a   Zerden, Lisa de Saxe ^a   Fitzgerald, Therese C ^a   Lundgren, Lena M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Injection drug use; Latinos; Prevention; Puerto Rican

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG USER; HEPATITIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LATINO PEOPLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROBABILITY; PUERTO RICO; RISK; SEX RATIO; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROBABILITY; PUERTO RICO; RISK-TAKING; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 38348999234     PISSN: 01497189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2007.05.013     Document Type: Article

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