The practice of indulging in sexual relations for money.

The application of methods designed to reduce the risk of harm associated with certain behaviors without reduction in frequency of those behaviors. The risk-associated behaviors include ongoing and active addictive behaviors.

Any violation of established legal or moral codes in respect to sexual behavior.

Threatened or actual attempt to harm others at place of employment.

Runaway and homeless children and adolescents living on the streets of cities and having no fixed place of residence.

Male-associated sex-specific social roles and behaviors unrelated to biologic function.

Diseases due to or propagated by sexual contact.

People who engage in occupational sexual behavior in exchange for economic rewards or other extrinsic considerations.

A violation of the criminal law, i.e., a breach of the conduct code specifically sanctioned by the state, which through its administrative agencies prosecutes offenders and imposes and administers punishments. The concept includes unacceptable actions whether prosecuted or going unpunished.

Groups of persons whose range of options is severely limited, who are frequently subjected to COERCION in their DECISION MAKING, or who may be compromised in their ability to give INFORMED CONSENT.

A province of eastern Canada. Its capital is Quebec. The region belonged to France from 1627 to 1763 when it was lost to the British. The name is from the Algonquian quilibek meaning the place where waters narrow, referring to the gradually narrowing channel of the St. Lawrence or to the narrows of the river at Cape Diamond. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p993 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p440)

Sexual activities of humans.

Married or single individuals who share sexual relations.

Disorders related to substance abuse.

Includes the spectrum of human immunodeficiency virus infections that range from asymptomatic seropositivity, thru AIDS-related complex (ARC), to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Human females as cultural, psychological, sociological, political, and economic entities.

The concept covering the physical and mental conditions of women.

Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of certainty or a fear of failure. It may also include the exhibiting of certain behaviors whose outcomes may present a risk to the individual or to those associated with him or her.

An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.

Places for cultivation and harvesting of fish, particularly in sea waters. (from McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)

The scientific study of past societies through artifacts, fossils, etc.

The protection, preservation, restoration, and rational use of all resources in the total environment.

Human females who are pregnant, as cultural, psychological, or sociological entities.

Women who are physically and mentally abused over an extended period, usually by a husband or other dominant male figure. Characteristics of the battered woman syndrome are helplessness, constant fear, and a perceived inability to escape. (From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3d ed)

A functional system which includes the organisms of a natural community together with their environment. (McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)

The pattern of any process, or the interrelationship of phenomena, which affects growth or change within a population.

Organized services to provide health care to women. It excludes maternal care services for which MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES is available.

The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.

The rights of women to equal status pertaining to social, economic, and educational opportunities afforded by society.

Techniques used to determine the age of materials, based on the content and half-lives of the RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES they contain.

The social process by which something or someone comes to be regarded and treated as an article of trade or commerce.

The process of cumulative change over successive generations through which organisms acquire their distinguishing morphological and physiological characteristics.

Agreements between two or more parties, especially those that are written and enforceable by law (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed). It is sometimes used to characterize the nature of the professional-patient relationship.

A group of cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates having gills, fins, a cartilaginous or bony endoskeleton, and elongated bodies covered with scales.

The hard rigid covering of animals including MOLLUSCS; TURTLES; INSECTS; and crustaceans.

A plant genus of the family Lecythidaceae which is the source of edible Brazil nuts.

Women who allow themselves to be impregnated with the understanding that the offspring are to be given over to the parents who have commissioned the surrogate.