Aboriginal health worker screening for sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses in a rural Australian juvenile correctional facility

Sexual Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-48

  Templeton, David J ^a,b,c,d   Tyson, Beverley A ^a   Meharg, Joel P ^a   Habgood, Katalin E ^a   Bullen, Patricia M ^a   Malek, Sharafat ^b   McLean, Rick ^b  

^a Greater Western Area Health Service   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Health services; Indigenous; Prisoners

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PRISONER; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TATTOOING;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; PRISONERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VIRUS DISEASES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77149129588     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH09035     Document Type: Article

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