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Autore |
Misir Prem |
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Titolo |
HIV/AIDS and Adolescents : South Pacific and Caribbean / / by Prem Misir |
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Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2019.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XX, 233 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color.) |
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Disciplina |
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Health care management |
Health services administration |
Economic development |
Critical criminology |
Health economics |
Behavioral sciences |
Health Care Management |
Development and Health |
Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime |
Health Economics |
Behavioral Sciences |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Systematic Review of the Literature -- Chapter 3 Methodology -- Chapter 4 HIV/AIDS Knowledge -- Chapter 5 HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Socio-demographics -- Chapter 6 Predictors of Knowledge & Stigma-related Attitudes/Perceptions -- Chapter 7 HIV/AIDS Stigma and Socio-demographics -- Chapter 8 Discussion and Implications. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book addresses the relationship between high school students’ HIV and AIDS knowledge and their stigma-related attitudes/perceptions of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Caribbean and South Pacific, with a view to designing effective stigma-reduction combined intervention programs. Presenting an international cross-sectional |
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study using a purposive sample of high school students from Fiji (South Pacific), Vanuatu (South Pacific), Guyana, and Antigua & Barbuda (Caribbean) to assess HIV and AIDS knowledge and stigma-related attitudes by gender, age, religion, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, the book shows how stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs negatively impact interventions to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS. |
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