Counting the homeless: A previously incalculable tuberculosis risk and its social determinants

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 839-848

  Feske, Marsha L ^a,b   Teeter, Larry D ^b   Musser, James M ^b   Graviss, Edward A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TEXAS; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876856833     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300973     Document Type: Article

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