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Publikováno v:
Women & Health. 50:705-718
Only lung cancer surpasses breast cancer as a cause of death from cancer. However, the burden of cancer is not borne equally across racial and ethnic groups. In the United States, African American women have significantly higher mortality rates from
Autor:
Sagiv Aaron, James M. McMahon, Danielle Milano, Michael C. Clatts, Leilani Torres, Donna Mildvan, Stephanie Tortu, Malgorzata Simm
Publikováno v:
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 47:931-934
Intranasal transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) via contaminated drug-sniffing implements is a potential but unconfirmed source of viral infection. We demonstrate the virological plausibility of intranasal transmission by confirming that blood and
Autor:
Jennifer Jackson Bloom, Erica Alarcon, Dodi Hathazi, Stephen E. Lankenau, Bill Sanders, Michael C. Clatts, Stephanie Tortu
Publikováno v:
Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 87:183-193
Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, has emerged as an increasingly common drug among subgroups of young injection drug users (IDUs) in cities across the United States. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 213 young IDUs aged 16–28 y
Autor:
James M. McMahon, Ruth L. Chimenti, Theresa Marie Fedor, Nicole Trabold, Mona Mittal, Stephanie Tortu
Publikováno v:
Journal of interpersonal violence. 32(24)
Heterosexual transmission of HIV often occurs in the context of intimate sexual partnerships. There is mounting evidence that couple-based HIV prevention interventions may be more effective than individual-based interventions for promoting risk reduc
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Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 50:3663-3680
In the social and health sciences, data are often structured hierarchically, with individuals nested within groups. Dyads constitute a special case of hierarchically structured data with variation at both the individual and dyadic level. Analyses of
Autor:
William T. Robinson, Jan M. H. Risser, Adam B. Becker, Stephanie Tortu, Hafeez Rehman, Mary Jefferson, Vivian Griffin, Marcia L. Wolverton, Shanell McGoy
Publikováno v:
Journal of Urban Health : Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
Several recent studies have utilized respondent-driven sampling (RDS) methods to survey hidden populations such as commercial sex-workers, men who have sex with men (MSM) and injection drug users (IDU). Few studies, however, have provided a direct co
Autor:
James M. McMahon, William Rodriguez, Stephanie Tortu, Enrique R. Pouget, Ellen M. Volpe, Leilani Torres
Publikováno v:
Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research. 16(2)
To help reduce the elevated risk of acquiring HIV for African American and Latina women drug users in primary heterosexual relationships, we developed a brief couple-based HIV counseling and testing prevention intervention. The intervention was based
Autor:
Jonny Andia, Sherry Deren, Crystal M. Fuller, Sung Yeon Kang, James M. McMahon, Bruce D. Johnson, Stephanie Tortu, Andrew Rosenblum, Enrique R. Pouget, Don C. Des Jarlais, Shannon Blaney, David Vlahov
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Drug Policy. 14:373-379
Beginning in January 2001, it became legal for pharmacies, health care facilities and certain health care providers in New York State (NYS) to sell or provide syringes (10 maximum) without prescription. Cross-sectional survey data from three research
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Anthropologie et Sociétés. 15:37-52
What's in a Name ?La construction sociale du risque du sidachez les consommateurs de drogue à HarlemCet essai trace l'histoire de vie de cinq personnes vivant à Harlem, une communauté appauvrie caractérisée par des taux élevés d'usage de drogu