The sexual health of female sex workers compared with other women in England: Analysis of cross-sectional data from genitourinary medicine clinics

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 344-350

  Grath Lone, Louise Mc ^a   Marsh, Kimberly ^b   Hughes, Gwenda ^b   Ward, Helen ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE SEX WORKER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

PROSTITUTION; SEXUAL HEALTH; SURVEILLANCE; WOMEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GONORRHEA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONDON; MIDDLE AGED; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SEX WORKERS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS; VAGINAL SMEARS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901818499     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051381     Document Type: Article

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