Sexual coercion and health-risk behaviors among urban chinese high school students

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Song, Yi ^a,b   Ji, Cheng Ye ^a   Agardh, Anette ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

High school students; Risk behaviors; Sexual coercion; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; BINGE DRINKING; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; RAPE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; BINGE DRINKING; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RAPE; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; STUDENTS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904396593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.24418     Document Type: Article

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