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Public Health - Publications

Gillian Abel

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Refereed Journal Articles

    Abel G, Fitzgerald L and Brunton C. The impact of decriminalization on the number of sex workers in New Zealand. Journal of Social Policy 38(3): 515-31, 2009.

    Abel G and Fitzgerald L. On a fast-track into adulthood: An exploration of transitions into adulthood for street-based sex workers in New Zealand. Journal of Youth Studies 11(4): 361-376, 2008.

    Technical report:
    Abel G, Fitzgerald L and Brunton C. The impact of the Prostitution Reform Act on the health and safety practices of sex workers: Report to the Prostitution Law Review Committee, Department of Public Health and General Practice, University of Otago, Christchurch. 2007
    ISBN: 0-9582732-0-0
    http://www.justice.govt.nz/prostitution-law-review-committee/publications/impact-health-safety/index.html

    Abel G and Fitzgerald L. "When you come to it you feel like a dork asking a guy to put a condom on": is sex education addressing young people's understandings of risk? Sex Education 6(2): 105-19, 2006.

    Abel G and Brunton C. Young people's use of condoms and their perceived vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 29(3): 254-60, 2005.

    Abel G and Plumridge L. Network 'norms' or 'styles' of 'drunken comportment'? Health Education Research 19(5): 492-500, 2004.

    Abel G, Plumridge L and Graham P. Peers, networks or relationships: strategies for understanding social dynamics as determinants of smoking behaviour. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy 9 (4) : 325-38, 2002.

    Corwin P, Abel G, Wells JE, Coughlan E, Bagshaw S, Sutherland M and Plumridge L. Chlamydia trachomatis prevalence and sexual behaviour in Christchurch high school students. New Zealand Medical Journal 115 (1158), 2002.

    Plumridge EW, Fitzgerald L and Abel G. Performing coolness: smoking refusal and adolescent identities. Health Education Research,17(2): 167-79, 2002.

    Plumridge E W and Abel G. A 'segmented' sex industry in New Zealand: sexual and personal safety of female sex workers. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 25(1) 78-83, 2001.

    Plumridge L and Abel G. Services and information utilised by female sex workers for sexual and physical safety. New Zealand Medical Journal 113: 370-2, 2000.

Non-refereed publications

    Abel G and Sutherland M. Chlamydia study in Christchurch high schools, Practice Nurse, December 2002, pp3-6, News article.

Technical reports

    Abel G, Fitzgerald L and Brunton C. The impact of the Prostitution Reform Act on the health and safety practices of sex workers: Report to the Prostitution Law Review Committee, Department of Public Health and General Practice, University of Otago, Christchurch. 2007
    ISBN: 0-9582732-0-0
    http://www.justice.govt.nz/prostitution-law-review-committee/publications/impact-health-safety/index.html

    Plumridge L and Abel G. Safer sex in the Christchurch sex industry. Report, Department of Public Health and General Practice, Christchurch School of Medicine, 2000.

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