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Primary preventive health care among injection drug users, other sustained drug users, and non-users
(Prévention de santé primaire parmi des usagers de drogues par voie intraveineuse et des non-usagers)
Auteur(s) :
CHITWOOD, D. D. ;
SANCHEZ, J. ;
COMERFORD, M. ;
Mc COY, C. B.
Année
2001
Page(s) :
807-824
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
40
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus mots-clés
PREVENTION
;
SANTE PUBLIQUE
;
USAGER
;
VOIE INTRAVEINEUSE
;
ACCES AUX SOINS
;
EPIDEMIOLOGIE DESCRIPTIVE
Thésaurus géographique
ETATS-UNIS
Note générale :
Substance Use and Misuse, 2001, 36, (6/7), 807-824
Note de contenu :
tabl.
Résumé :
ENGLISH :
The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the relationship between sustained illicit drug use and the utilization of primary preventive health care. Data from 1254 African-American, Hispanic/Latino, and non-Hispanic/Latino white men and women collected in 1996-1997 were analyzed to determine independent risk factors for the utilization of primary preventive health care that was not received as a result of seeking treatment for a specific health condition. When several demographic, health, and drug use variables were assessed in a logistic regression model, gender, ethnicity, health insurance status, drug use, and alcohol use were independently associated with primary preventive care. Women, Hispanic/Latinos, and persons who had health insurance were more likely to have received primary preventive health care while injection drug users, other sustained drug users, and "heavy" alcohol users were less likely to have used primary preventive health care services in the past year. (Editor's abstract.)
Affiliation :
Univ. Miami, 5665 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables, FL 33146-0719
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.