The impact of discontinuation of male STD screening services at a large urban county jail: Chicago, 2002-2004

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages

  Broad, Jennifer ^a   Cox, Tamara ^a   Rodriguez, Sergio ^b   Mansour, Mohamed ^b   Mennella, Concetta ^b   Murphy Swallow, Dorothy ^b   Raba, John M ^b   Wong, William ^a  

^a CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Cook County Bureau of Health Services ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRISON; SCREENING TEST; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRISONER; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHICAGO; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PRISONERS; PRISONS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62849086837     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318156159a     Document Type: Article

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