Using peer ethnography to address health disparities among young urban Black and Latino men who have sex with men

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 849-852

  Mutchler, Matt G ^a,b   McKay, Tara ^d   McDavitt, Bryce ^a,b,c   Gordon, Kristie K ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIDS Project Los Angeles   (United States)

^c Pacifica Graduate Institute   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MALE; PEER GROUP; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876839492     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300988     Document Type: Article

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