Racial/ethnic differences in patterns of sexual risk behavior and rates of sexually transmitted infections among female young adults

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 903-909

  Pflieger, Jacqueline C ^a   Cook, Emily C ^a   Niccolai, Linda M ^b   Connell, Christian M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CAUCASIAN; CONDOM; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; BAYES THEOREM; CONDOMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876849715     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301005     Document Type: Article

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