Peter Meylakhs
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 235400 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Meylakhs |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Meylakhs |
| FIRMA | MEYLAKHS P |
| AFILIACIONES | Centre for Independent Social Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3029-9918 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Two Drug Epidemics in St. Petersburg, Russia? Substance Use, Risk Behaviors, and HIV and HCV Prevalence Among Young and Older People Who Inject Drugs Attending a Harm Reduction Facility
Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021
BACKGROUND: Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics to gauge progress in reducing mortality rates. These estimates are particularly important following large-scale mortality spikes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. When systematically analysed, mort…
Health Behaviors During the Covid-19 Epidemic
Control of the COVID-19 pandemic requires significant changes in people’s health behaviors. We offer this multidisciplinary perspective on the extent of compliance with social distancing recommendations and on coping with these measures around the globe in the first months of the pandemic. We present descriptive data from our survey of 17,650 respondents across 18 countries and territories in June 2020. The majority of respondents worried about c…
Development of a global index measuring national policy commitments to HIV prevention and treatment among people who inject drugs
A New Generation of Drug Users in St. Petersburg, Russia? HIV, HCV, and Overdose Risks in a Mixed-Methods Pilot Study of Young Hard Drug Users
Network Structure of an Aids-Denialist Online Community
With rapid growth of online social network sites, the issue of health-related online communities and its social and behavioral implications has become increasingly important for public health. Unfortunately, online communities often become vehicles for promotion of pernicious misinformation, in particular, that HIV virus is a myth (AIDS denialism). This study seeks to explore online users' behavior and interactions within AIDS-denialist community…
Taking care of themselves
Though prevalence of HIV and especially Hepatitis C is high among people who inject drugs (PWID) in New York, about a third of those who have injected for 8-15 years have avoided infection by either virus despite their long-term drug use. Based on life history interviews with 35 long-term PWID in New York, this article seeks to show how successful integration and performance of various drug using and non-drug using roles may have contributed to s…
Dangerous knowledge vs. dangerous ignorance
The paper is devoted to analysis of the debates on sex education in the Russian press. ‘Risk narrative structure’ of media articles on sex education was determined. This structure represents a system of mutually constituting elements, which include object of risk, risks themselves, solutions to their prevention, solutions opponents, and type of society these solutions presuppose. It is argued that analysis of risks with the aid of ‘risk narrative…
Flere positive – men er alt negativt
More people are positive - but is everything negative? Russia and the HIV epidemic Despite enhanced attention to HIV and AIDS among the authorities in Russia, accompanied by growing public funds to fi the epidemic, the number of HIV- infected people continues to increase. The article focuses on factors in Russian soci- ety that contribute to explaining Russia's lack of progress in curbing the epidemic. Based on interviews with a variety of actors…
Strategies to avoid opiate withdrawal
Drugs and Symbolic Pollution
This article is devoted to analysis of the 'media drug wave' that occurred in Russia at the end of the 1990s. Following a general description of the coverage of the drug problem by the Russian press, the article sets out to explore some reasons that may help to explain the extremely negative attitude of the media and the overwhelming majority of the Russian population to drugs and drug users. Drawing on the cultural theory of risk, it is argued t…
Drugs and Symbolic Pollution
This article is devoted to analysis of the 'media drug wave' that occurred in Russia at the end of the 1990s. Following a general description of the coverage of the drug problem by the Russian press, the article sets out to explore some reasons that may help to explain the extremely negative attitude of the media and the overwhelming majority of the Russian population to drugs and drug users. Drawing on the cultural theory of risk, it is argued t…
Network Structure of an Aids-Denialist Online Community
With rapid growth of online social network sites, the issue of health-related online communities and its social and behavioral implications has become increasingly important for public health. Unfortunately, online communities often become vehicles for promotion of pernicious misinformation, in particular, that HIV virus is a myth (AIDS denialism). This study seeks to explore online users' behavior and interactions within AIDS-denialist community…
Taking care of themselves
Though prevalence of HIV and especially Hepatitis C is high among people who inject drugs (PWID) in New York, about a third of those who have injected for 8-15 years have avoided infection by either virus despite their long-term drug use. Based on life history interviews with 35 long-term PWID in New York, this article seeks to show how successful integration and performance of various drug using and non-drug using roles may have contributed to s…
Drugs and Symbolic Pollution
This article is devoted to analysis of the 'media drug wave' that occurred in Russia at the end of the 1990s. Following a general description of the coverage of the drug problem by the Russian press, the article sets out to explore some reasons that may help to explain the extremely negative attitude of the media and the overwhelming majority of the Russian population to drugs and drug users. Drawing on the cultural theory of risk, it is argued t…
Strategies to avoid opiate withdrawal
Dangerous knowledge vs. dangerous ignorance
The paper is devoted to analysis of the debates on sex education in the Russian press. ‘Risk narrative structure’ of media articles on sex education was determined. This structure represents a system of mutually constituting elements, which include object of risk, risks themselves, solutions to their prevention, solutions opponents, and type of society these solutions presuppose. It is argued that analysis of risks with the aid of ‘risk narrative…
Flere positive – men er alt negativt
More people are positive - but is everything negative? Russia and the HIV epidemic Despite enhanced attention to HIV and AIDS among the authorities in Russia, accompanied by growing public funds to fi the epidemic, the number of HIV- infected people continues to increase. The article focuses on factors in Russian soci- ety that contribute to explaining Russia's lack of progress in curbing the epidemic. Based on interviews with a variety of actors…
Taking care of themselves
Though prevalence of HIV and especially Hepatitis C is high among people who inject drugs (PWID) in New York, about a third of those who have injected for 8-15 years have avoided infection by either virus despite their long-term drug use. Based on life history interviews with 35 long-term PWID in New York, this article seeks to show how successful integration and performance of various drug using and non-drug using roles may have contributed to s…
Network Structure of an Aids-Denialist Online Community
With rapid growth of online social network sites, the issue of health-related online communities and its social and behavioral implications has become increasingly important for public health. Unfortunately, online communities often become vehicles for promotion of pernicious misinformation, in particular, that HIV virus is a myth (AIDS denialism). This study seeks to explore online users' behavior and interactions within AIDS-denialist community…
A New Generation of Drug Users in St. Petersburg, Russia? HIV, HCV, and Overdose Risks in a Mixed-Methods Pilot Study of Young Hard Drug Users
Development of a global index measuring national policy commitments to HIV prevention and treatment among people who inject drugs
Health Behaviors During the Covid-19 Epidemic
Control of the COVID-19 pandemic requires significant changes in people’s health behaviors. We offer this multidisciplinary perspective on the extent of compliance with social distancing recommendations and on coping with these measures around the globe in the first months of the pandemic. We present descriptive data from our survey of 17,650 respondents across 18 countries and territories in June 2020. The majority of respondents worried about c…
Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021
BACKGROUND: Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics to gauge progress in reducing mortality rates. These estimates are particularly important following large-scale mortality spikes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. When systematically analysed, mort…
Two Drug Epidemics in St. Petersburg, Russia? Substance Use, Risk Behaviors, and HIV and HCV Prevalence Among Young and Older People Who Inject Drugs Attending a Harm Reduction Facility
Medicine (8 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (7 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (5 obras) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Drug (4 obras) · Environmental health (4 obras) · Psychiatry (4 obras) · Public health (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras)