Income inequality and Neisseria gonorrhoeae notifications in females: A country-level analysis

Sexual Health

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 556-560

  Bingham, Amie L ^a   Kavanagh, Anne M ^a   Fairley, Christopher Kit ^b   Keogh, Louise A ^a   Bentley, Rebecca J ^a   Hocking, Jane S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

gini coefficient; social determinants.

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; GINI COEFFICIENT; GONORRHEA; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCOME INEQUALITY; INFECTION CONTROL; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 84914173406     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: 14498987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH13188     Document Type: Article

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