Health Risk Behaviors in a Representative Sample of Bisexual and Heterosexual Female High School Students in Massachusetts.

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Published in J Sch Health on January 01, 2016

Authors

Jaclyn M White Hughto1,2, Katie B Biello3,4, Sari L Reisner5,6,7, Amaya Perez-Brumer8, Katherine J Heflin9, Matthew J Mimiaga10,11,12

Author Affiliations

1: The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, 1340 Boylston Street, 8th Floor, Boston, MA 02215. Jwhite@fenwayhealth.org.
2: Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health. Jwhite@fenwayhealth.org.
3: The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, 1340 Boylston Street, 8th Floor, Boston, MA 02215. Kbiello@fenwayhealth.org.
4: Departments of Behavioral & Social Sciences and Epidemiology, Institute for Community Health Promotion, Brown University School of Public Health. Kbiello@fenwayhealth.org.
5: The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, 1340 Boylston Street, 8th Floor, Boston, MA 02215. SReisner@fenwayhealth.org.
6: Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. SReisner@fenwayhealth.org.
7: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. SReisner@fenwayhealth.org.
8: Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032. Agp2133@columbia.edu.
9: Center for Health Care Strategies, 200 American Metro Blvd., Hamilton, New Jersey 08619. Kheflin@chcs.org.
10: The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, 1340 Boylston Street, 8th Floor, Boston, MA 02215. Mmimiaga@fenwayhealth.org.
11: Institute for Community Health Promotion, Brown University School of Public Health. Mmimiaga@fenwayhealth.org.
12: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Mmimiaga@fenwayhealth.org.

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