High-risk behaviours among juvenile prison inmates in Pakistan

Public Health

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 470-475

  Altaf, A ^a   Janjua, N Z ^a,b,c   Kristensen, S ^b   Zaidi, N A ^d   Memon, A ^e   Hook III, E W ^f   Vermund, S H ^b   Shah, S A ^e  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Government of Sindh Pakistan   (Pakistan)

^f University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Condom; Health knowledge; Pakistan; Prisons; Sexual behaviour; Sexually transmitted infections

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; CONDOM USE; DRUG USER; HEALTH RISK; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; JUVENILE; KNOWLEDGE; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MALE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; PRISON; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; PAKISTAN; PRISONERS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UNSAFE SEX;

ASIA; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE;

EID: 68349114986     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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