Mapping violence and policing as an environmental-structural barrier to health service and syringe availability among substance-using women in street-level sex work

International Journal of Drug Policy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 140-147

  Shannon, K ^a,b   Rusch, M ^a,b   Shoveller, J ^a,b   Alexson, D ^c   Gibson, K ^c   Tyndall, M W ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIV AIDS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c WISH Drop In Centre Society   (Canada)

Author keywords

Harm reduction; Policing; Safer environment interventions; Sex work; Syringe exchange access; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; RISK REDUCTION; SAFE SEX; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYRINGE; VIOLENCE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CRACK COCAINE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEEDLE-EXCHANGE PROGRAMS; POLICE; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 41049105052     PISSN: 09553959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2007.11.024     Document Type: Article

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