Social capital, poverty, and income inequality as predictors of gonorrhoea, syphilis, chlamydia and AIDS case rates in the United States

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 62-64

  Holtgrave, David ^a   Crosby, R A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHILD WELFARE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GONORRHEA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POVERTY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; INCOME; POVERTY; POVERTY AREAS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYPHILIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037326544     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.79.1.62     Document Type: Article

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