AIDS, Drugs and Prevention
1st Edition
Taylor and Francis · Print & ebook · August 2, 1996
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- Who it’s for
- This book examines how social contexts shape HIV prevention, from individual actions to wider community environments.
- Genres
- HIV & AIDS, Public Health, Preventive Medicine
- Published
- Taylor and Francis, August 2, 1996
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AIDS, Drugs and Prevention brings together a range of international contributions on the research, theory and practice of developing community-based HIV prevention. It aims to understand how individual actions to prevent HIV transmission are constrained and encouraged by situational and social context.
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Drawing on ethnographic and epidemiological research among populations of drug users, sex workers and gay men, it explores how future HIV prevention interventions can target changes at the level of the individual as well as at the level of the community and wider social environment. AIDS, Drugs and Prevention offers practical and theoretical insights into community-based health work in the time of AIDS. It provides invaluable reading for students, lecturers, researchers and practioners in health promotion, health policy, social work and medical sociology.
Community HIV Prevention
This book examines how social contexts shape HIV prevention, from individual actions to wider community environments.
Come here for
- Research, theory and practice in community-based HIV prevention
- Ethnographic and epidemiological research among drug users, sex workers and gay men
Expect
- International contributions on community-based prevention
- Practical and theoretical insights into health work during the AIDS era
Where it sits
| HIV & AIDS | 56% |
|---|---|
| Public Health | 49% |
| Preventive Medicine | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Social Work
- Authors
- Richard Hartnoll, Tim Rhodes
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Published
- August 2, 1996
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Social Work