Monitoring health inequities and planning in virginia: Poverty, human immunodeficiency virus, and sexually transmitted infections

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 981-984

  Dolan, Carrie ^a,b   Delcher, Chris ^a  

^a VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b 5308 Discovery Park Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; POVERTY; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICS; VIROLOGY;

CENSUSES; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; POVERTY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; VIRGINIA;

EID: 58849144731     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318182a571     Document Type: Article

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