A continuum of risk? The management of health, physical and emotional risks by female sex workers

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 557-574

  Sanders, Teela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotions; Prostitution; Protection strategies; Risk; Sex workers; Violence

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREVALENCE; PROSTITUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; VIOLENCE; WORK; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SAFE SEX; SELF CARE; STATISTICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SAFE SEX; SELF CARE; URBAN HEALTH; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 4143146449     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0141-9889.2004.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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