Violent crime rates as a proxy for the social determinants of sexually transmissible infection rates: The consistent state-level correlation between violent crime and reported sexually transmissible infections in the United States, 1981-2010

Sexual Health

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 419-423

  Chesson, Harrell W ^a   Owusu Edusei, Kwame ^a   Leichliter, Jami S ^a   Aral, Sevgi O ^a  

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

Author keywords

epidemiology; gonorrhoea; poverty; syphilis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRIME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; POVERTY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES; VIOLENT CRIME;

CRIME; GONORRHEA; HUMANS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; SEX OFFENSES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SYPHILIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84886936897     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: 14498987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH13006     Document Type: Article

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