Assessment of the routine, occupation-based gonorrhea and syphilis screening program in Moscow, Russia: An analysis of sexually transmitted infection prevalence and cost-effectiveness

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 453-460

  Kourbatova, Ekaterina V ^a   Akovbyan, Vagan A ^b   Chesson, Harrell W ^c,i   Lytkina, Irina N ^d   Dmitriev, Georgyi A ^e   Tikhonova, Lilia I ^f   Koubanova, Anna A ^f   Petukhova, Irina I ^f   Latypova, Munira F ^d   Aboymova, Olga A ^d   Lewis, Joel S ^g   Ryan, Caroline A ^c   Shakarishvili, Anna ^h  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance of the Russian Federation   (Russian Federation)

^e N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f Federal Agency for Health Care and Social Development   (Russian Federation)

^g McKing Consulting Corp   (United States)

^h Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)   (Ukraine)

ⁱ CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCREENING; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; OCCUPATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RUSSIA; SYPHILIS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 43449140001     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31816f1c65     Document Type: Article

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