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| Colette L AuerswaldSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Street-based STD testing and treatment of homeless youth are feasible, acceptable and effectiveColette L Auerswald
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 0503, USA
J Adolesc Health 38:208-12. 2006..Our non-medically trained research staff offered field-based STI testing, field-delivered therapy, and PDPT to homeless youth in the context of a longitudinal study...- Does partner selection contribute to sex differences in sexually transmitted infection rates among African American adolescents in San Francisco?Colette L Auerswald
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 0503, USA
Sex Transm Dis 33:480-4. 2006..Little is known regarding whether partner characteristics explain sex differences in sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates in nonclinic-based, school-aged African American youth... - Youth living with HIV and partner-specific risk for the secondary transmission of HIVJacky M Jennings
Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Sex Transm Dis 36:439-44. 2009..Cross-sectional data analyses, including bivariate and multivariable regressions, using generalized estimating equations, were conducted during 2008 to compare recent partner-specific sexual risk behaviors between WSM and MSM... - Qualitative assessment of venues for purposive sampling of hard-to-reach youth: an illustration in a Latino communityColette L Auerswald
Division of Adolescent Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Sex Transm Dis 31:133-8. 2004..CONCLUSION: The qualitative assessment produced insights and hypotheses that can contribute to the planning of research, outreach, testing, and interventions with Latino youth... - The worlds of homeless white and African American youth in San Francisco, California: a cultural epidemiological comparisonBenjamin Hickler
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Soc Sci Med 68:824-31. 2009..In contrast, our sample of African American youth generally did not perceive themselves as "homeless," a stigmatized term, and were thus less likely to utilize, or be accessed by, relevant services... - Incidence and predictors of onset of injection drug use in a San Francisco cohort of homeless youthAndrea M Parriott
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1772, USA
Subst Use Misuse 44:1958-70. 2009..Limitations, implications and suggestions for future research are noted. Funding was provided by the National Institute for Child Health and Development... - Why doctors choose small towns: a developmental model of rural physician recruitment and retentionChristine Hancock
UC Berkeley UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
Soc Sci Med 69:1368-76. 2009..Health policy efforts to improve the physician workforce must address these complexities in order to support the variety of physicians who choose and remain in rural practice... - Service utilization and the life cycle of youth homelessnessJennifer L Carlson
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 0503, USA
J Adolesc Health 38:624-7. 2006..Ninety-nine percent of participants accessed services. Medical service utilization was highest among youth who were attempting to leave the street. Drug-related service utilization was lowest among youth most entrenched in street life... - Youth homelessness in San Francisco: a life cycle approachColette L Auerswald
Department of Pediatrics, University of California at San Francisco, 94143, USA
Soc Sci Med 54:1497-512. 2002..If this model is validated in a larger population of youth, programs that are aimed at these two stages in the life cycle could potentially effectively complement existing programs, which are usually focused on youth in stasis... - Concurrent partnerships among adolescents in a Latino community: the Mission District of San Francisco, CaliforniaIrene A Doherty
School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
Sex Transm Dis 34:437-43. 2007..Latino adolescents in the United States are disproportionately affected by sexually transmitted infections, yet knowledge of their sexual networks, particularly concurrent sex partners, is limited...
Research Grants
- HOMELESS YOUTH: STREET CULTURE/SOCIAL NETWORKS/HIV-RISKColette Auerswald; Fiscal Year: 2005..An understanding of how social network connections promote and prevent risky behaviors would also have significant implications for the designing of interventions with this population. ..