Neighborhood drug markets: A risk environment for bacterial sexually transmitted infections among urban youth

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1240-1250

  Jennings, Jacky M ^a,b   Taylor, Ralph B ^c   Salhi, Rama A ^a   Furr Holden, Debra C M ^b   Ellen, Jonathan M ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core transmitters; Drug markets; Medical geography; Sexually transmitted infections; Social epidemiology; USA

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; ILLICIT DRUG;

DISEASE CONTROL; DRUGS TRADE; HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDOM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG USE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER; GONORRHEA; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HUMAN; INCOME; JUVENILE; MALE; NEIGHBORHOOD DRUG MARKET; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG USE; POLICE; POLICE ARREST; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

BALTIMORE; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; POVERTY AREAS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STREET DRUGS; UNSAFE SEX; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

BALTIMORE; MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA;

EID: 84858624355     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.12.040     Document Type: Article

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