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Publikováno v:
Culture, Health & Sexuality. 20:1130-1144
This paper explores the behaviours and meanings associated with intimacy and sexuality among older adults with diverse partners living in subsidised senior housing. It utilises survey and qualitative data from a mixed methods of ageing/HIV exposure t
Autor:
Jean J. Schensul, Kim Radda
Publikováno v:
Annals of Anthropological Practice. 35:154-173
This article describes the process of creating and maintaining alliances to address the health and well-being of older adults. These relationships, that we call “living alliances,” are developed and nurtured through long-term relationships with i
Autor:
Emil Coman, Gretchen J. Diefenbach, William B. Disch, Kim Radda, Jean J. Schensul, Julie Robison, Sonia Gaztambide
Publikováno v:
Aging & Mental Health. 13:659-673
Mental health problems are associated with disability, overuse of medical care, higher rates of mortality and suicide as well as personal suffering for older adults. Residents of urban, low-income senior housing may face increased risk of a variety o
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Community Psychology. 43:313-329
In this paper we describe a successful multi-level participatory intervention grounded in principles of individual and group empowerment, and guided by social construction theory. The intervention addressed known and persistent inequities in influenz
Changing Drug Users' Risk Environments: Peer Health Advocates as Multi-level Community Change Agents
Autor:
Jianghong Li, Eduardo Robles, Maria Martinez, Margaret R. Weeks, Kim Radda, Julia Dickson-Gomez, Mark Convey
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Community Psychology. 43:330-344
Peer delivered, social oriented HIV prevention intervention designs are increasingly popular for addressing broader contexts of health risk beyond a focus on individual factors. Such interventions have the potential to affect multiple social levels o
Publikováno v:
Scopus-Elsevier
The Study of High Risk Drug Use Settings for HIV Prevention was designed to increase knowledge of urban social contexts in which drugs are consumed. In this article, we use ethnographic methods to focus on one subtype of drug use setting in Hartford,
Publikováno v:
AIDS and Behavior. 6:193-206
Social network research increasingly expands our understanding of the social environment of drug users' health risks, particularly those associated with the transmission of HIV, hepatitis, and other sexually transmitted and bloodborne infectious dise
Autor:
D. Scott Wilson, Merrill Singer, Kim Radda, Glenn Scott, Margaret R. Weeks, Jean J. Schensul, Glenn Knight, Scott Clair, Maria Martinez
Publikováno v:
Scopus-Elsevier
A study of drug use locations in Hartford, CT, Is designed to understand the environmental and social conditions within “high risk sites” where drug users inject drugs or smoke crack, In order to develop AIDS prevention models that build upon the
Autor:
Margaret R. Weeks, Kim Radda Ma, David Himmelgreen, Maryland Grier, Merrill Singer, Phil Richmond Ms
Publikováno v:
Drugs & Society. 13:35-61
SUMMARY The social context of drug use defines women's experiences of addiction and their patterns of use. Gender relations and roles, ethnic identity, poverty, and local circumstances, including drug-related epidemics such as the human immunodeficie
Autor:
Kim Radda, Carmen Y. Reyes, William B. Disch, Julie Robison, Jean J. Schensul, Sonia Gaztambide
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Community Psychology. 38:23-25
Community-based research often brings investigators from different disciplinary backgrounds together with community representatives to conduct research on topics of mutual concern. This paper describes a case example that illustrates an interdiscipli