Preventing HIV Among U.S. Women of Color With Severe Mental Illness: Perceptions of Mental Health Care Providers Working in Urban Community Clinics

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 281-302

  Agénor, Madina ^a   Collins, Pamela Y ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PERCEPTION; POVERTY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; NEW YORK CITY; PERCEPTION; POVERTY AREAS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84873923004     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399332.2012.755983     Document Type: Article

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