The social determinants of emergency department and hospital use by injection drug users in Canada
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Urban Health
- Vol. 76 (4) , 409-418
Abstract
The aim of this study was to describe the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and human immunodeficiency (HIV) status of a cohort of injection drug users (IDUs) on their self-reported health service utilization.Keywords
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