Exploring the sexual health priorities and needs of immigrant Latinas in the southeastern United States: A community-based participatory research approach

AIDS Education and Prevention

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 236-248

  Cashman, Rebecca ^a   Eng, Eugenia ^b   Simán, Florence ^c   Rhodes, Scott D ^d,e  

^a The Resource for Human Development   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c El Pueblo Community Development Corporation   (United States)

^d Section on Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SHAME; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959836074     PISSN: 08999546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2011.23.3.236     Document Type: Article

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