Making a difference: The construction of ethnicity in HIV and STI epidemiological research by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1838-1845

  Proctor, Alana ^a   Krumeich, Anja ^a   Meershoek, Agnes ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; HIV; Migrants; Race; STI; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNIC MINORITY; ETHNICITY; HEALTH RISK; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE;

ARTICLE; BISEXUAL MALE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; GONORRHEA; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MIGRATION; NETHERLANDS; PROSTITUTION; RACISM; SAFE SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TRANSSEXUALISM; UNSAFE SEX; URBAN POPULATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 79958730509     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.043     Document Type: Article

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