Poverty as a contextual factor affecting sexual health behavior among female sex workers in India

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 825-833

  Dasgupta, Satarupa ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnography; HIV AIDS; poverty; risk; sex workers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDOM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INTERVIEW; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PEER GROUP; POVERTY; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; HIV INFECTIONS; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TRANSMISSION; UTILIZATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; CONDOMS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PEER GROUP; POVERTY; SEX WORKERS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 84876800826     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732313483925     Document Type: Article

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