Commercial sex worker use among male chinese rural-urban migrants

American Journal of Health Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 116-123

  Yang, Tingzhong ^a   Cottrell, Randall R ^b   Yang, Xiaozhao ^c   Liu, Jiwen ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d XINJIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Commercial sex behaviors; Diffusion theory; Hedonism theory; HIV AIDS; Ruralurban migrants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHINA; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIGRATION; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; TIME; UNSAFE SEX; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; DATA COLLECTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; RISK-TAKING; RURAL POPULATION; SEX WORKERS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNSAFE SEX; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84555202650     PISSN: 10873244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.36.1.12     Document Type: Article

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