Methods to Measure the Impact of Home, Social, and Sexual Neighborhoods of Urban Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Koblin, Beryl A ^a   Egan, James E ^b   Rundle, Andrew ^c   Quinn, James ^c   Tieu, Hong Van ^a,d   Cerdá, Magdalena ^c   Ompad, Danielle C ^e   Greene, Emily ^a,c   Hoover, Donald R ^f   Frye, Victoria ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; GENDER IDENTITY; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MARRIAGE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; NEIGHBORHOOD; PERSONAL SPACE; PRISON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIALIZATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BISEXUALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84885718783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075878     Document Type: Article

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