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Repeated school-based screening for sexually transmitted diseases: a feasible strategy for reaching adolescentsD A Cohen
Departments of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112, USA
Pediatrics 104:1281-5. 1999..To determine whether repeated school-based screening and treatment for chlamydia and gonorrhea will decrease the prevalence of infection among students...
A structural model of health behavior: a pragmatic approach to explain and influence health behaviors at the population levelD A Cohen
Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Prev Med 30:146-54. 2000..This paper builds on existing ecological theories of health behavior by specifying structural mechanisms by which population-level factors effect change in individual health behaviors...
"Broken windows" and the risk of gonorrheaD Cohen
Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112, USA
Am J Public Health 90:230-6. 2000..We examined the relationships between neighborhood conditions and gonorrhea...
Condom availability for HIV/STD preventionD A Cohen
Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 13:731-7. 1999..Condom availability as an HIV/STD prevention strategy needs to be reprioritized and should be considered a critical foundation of all programs to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV...
An STD/HIV prevention intervention frameworkD A Cohen
Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 14:37-45. 2000..A new taxonomy not only clarifies the content of preventive interventions but highlights neglected strategies involving individual biological interventions and structural interventions to prevent STD/HIV transmission...
Evidence of a structural effect for alcohol outlet density: a multilevel analysisR A Scribner
Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 24:188-95. 2000..The effect of alcohol outlet density could be related to greater individual access to alcohol, an individual level effect, or to the grouping of drinkers by neighborhood, a structural effect at the neighborhood level...
