Associations of sex ratios and male incarceration rates with multiple opposite-sex partners: Potential social determinants of HIV/STI transmission

Public Health Reports

Volumn 125, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2010, Pages 70-80

  Pouget, Enrique R ^a   Kershaw, Trace S ^b   Niccolai, Linda M ^b   Ickovics, Jeannette R ^b   Blankenship, Kim M ^c  

^a NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK; SEX RATIO; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PRISONERS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955887314     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00333549101250s411     Document Type: Article

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