
Auteur K. LI
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Documents disponibles écrits par cet auteur (23)

C. L. MILLER ; T. KERR ; FRANKISH J. C. ; P. M. SPITTAL ; K. LI ; M. T. SCHECHTER ; E. WOOD | 2006
PériodiqueENGLISH : Several studies have highlighted risk factors that cause HIV vulnerability among injection drug users (IDUs); these studies in turn have prompted public health officials to take action to minimize these risks. We sought to evaluate t[...]
C. L. MILLER ; T. KERR ; FRANKISH J. C. ; P. M. SPITTAL ; K. LI ; M. T. SCHECHTER ; E. WOOD | 2006
PériodiqueENGLISH : Several studies have highlighted risk factors that cause HIV vulnerability among injection drug users (IDUs); these studies in turn have prompted public health officials to take action to minimize these risks. We sought to evaluate t[...]
ENGLISH : Aims Previous studies have largely attributed the Australian heroin shortage to increases in local law enforcement efforts. Because western Canada receives heroin from similar source nations, but has not measurably increased enforcem[...]
ENGLISH : Injection drug users (IDUs) are vulnerable to serious health complications resulting from unsafe injection practices. We examined whether the use of a supervised safer injection facility (SIF) promoted change in injecting practices a[...]
E. WOOD ; T. KERR ; W. SMALL ; K. LI ; D. C. MARSH ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. W. TYNDALL | 2004
PériodiqueBackground: North America's first medically supervised safer injecting facility for illicit injection drug users was opened in Vancouver on Sept. 22, 2003. Although similar facilities exist in a number of European cities and in Sydney, Australia[...]
T. KERR ; W. SMALL ; C. JOHNSTON ; K. LI ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; E. WOOD | 2008
Dans Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (Vol.40 n°2, 2008) Article : PériodiqueENGLISH : So-called balanced drug policy couples enforcement initiatives targeting drug dealers with health-focused interventions serving addicted individuals. There are few evaluations of this approach, and little is known about how these two[...]
E. WOOD ; P. M. SPITTAL ; W. SMALL ; T. KERR ; K. LI ; R. S. HOGG ; M. W. TYNDALL ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. T. SCHECHTER | 2004
PériodiqueBackground: Law enforcement is often used in an effort to reduce the social, community and health-related harms of illicit drug use by injection drug users (IDUs). There are, however, few data on the benefits of such enforcement or on the potent[...]
P. M. SPITTAL ; R. S. HOGG ; K. LI ; CRAIB K. J. ; RECSKY M. ; C. JOHNSTON ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. T. SCHECHTER ; E. WOOD | 2006
PériodiqueThe health and social conditions of women living in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has recently been the focus of substantial international attention. Since few studies have examined rates and correlates of death among addicted women in Canada, w[...]
KUYPER L. M. ; T. KERR ; K. LI ; R. S. HOGG ; M. W. TYNDALL ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; E. WOOD | 2006
PériodiqueENGLISH : We performed analyses of syringe buying and syringe selling among Vancouver injection drug users, recruited from May 1996 and followed up between November 2002 and August 2003, in the context of one of North America's largest syringe[...]
C. L. MILLER ; S. A. STRATHDEE ; T. KERR ; K. LI ; E. WOOD | 2006
Dans Journal of Adolescent Health (Vol.38, n°4, April 2006) Article : PériodiqueThis study explores factors associated with early adolescent (aged
E. WOOD ; M. W. TYNDALL ; P. M. SPITTAL ; K. LI ; R. S. HOGG ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; M. V. O'SHAUGHNESSY ; M. T. SCHECHTER | 2002
PériodiqueENGLISH : Vancouver has experienced an explosive HIV epidemic despite the presence of a needle exchange programme (NEP). We sought possible explanations for high-risk syringe sharing among Vancouver injection drug users over the period January[...]
C. L. MILLER ; T. KERR ; S. A. STRATHDEE ; K. LI ; E. WOOD | 2007
Dans Harm Reduction Journal (Vol.4 n°1, 2007) Article : PériodiqueENGLISH : BACKGROUND: Young injection drug users (IDUs) may be at increased risk of premature mortality due to the health risks associated with injection drug use including overdoses and infections. However, there has been little research cond[...]
KUYPER L. M. ; A. PALEPU ; T. KERR ; K. LI ; C. L. MILLER ; P. M. SPITTAL ; R. S. HOGG ; J. S. G. MONTANER ; E. WOOD | 2005
PériodiqueENGLISH : Background: We undertook this study to evaluate the factors associated with sex-trade involvement among a cohort of female injection drug users (IDUs). Methods: We performed a prospective analysis of factors associated with sex-trade[...]
ENGLISH : Youth are important with respect to HIV/AIDS, not only because they are at risk of infection, but it is during this period that many behaviour patterns are established that will affect their risk of infection in later life. We undert[...]
T. KERR ; STOLTZ J. A. ; M. TYNDALL ; K. LI ; R. ZHANG ; J. MONTANER ; E. WOOD | 2006
Dans British Medical Journal (Vol.332, n°7535, 28 January 2006) Article : PériodiqueProblem: Illicit use of injected drugs is linked with high rates of HIV infection and fatal overdose, as well as community concerns about public drug use. Supervised injecting facilities have been proposed as a potential solution, but fears have[...]