Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Friedman, Samuel R. (Συγγραφέας), Curtis, Richard (Συγγραφέας), Neaigus, Alan (Συγγραφέας), Jose, Benny (Συγγραφέας), Jarlais, Don C. Des (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Σειρά: AIDS Prevention and Mental Health,
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Public health.; Health promotion.; Infectious diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Infectious Diseases.

Social Networks, Drug Injectors' Lives, and HIV/AIDS recognizes HIV as a socially structured disease - its transmission usually requires intimate contact between individuals - and shows how social networks shape high-risk behaviors and the spread of HIV. The authors recount the groundbreaking u...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Learning from Lives
• The Drug Scene and Risk Behaviors in Bushwick
• The Very First Hit
• Network Concepts and Serosurvey Methods
• The Research Participants and Their Behaviors
• Personal Risk Networks and High-Risk Injecting Settings of Drug Injectors
• Syringe Sharing and the Social Characteristics of Drug-Injecting Dyads
• Sexual Networks, Condom Use, and the Prospects for HIV Spread to Non-Injection Drug Users
• Sociometric Networks among Bushwick Drug Injectors
• Networks and HIV and Other Infections
• Prevention and Research.