Understanding the impact of place on health is a key element of epidemiologic investigation,
and numerous tools are being employed for analysis of spatial health-related data. This …

METHODS We conducted a PubMed search for studies before April 2008 that estimated the
rate of reinfection with gonorrhea or chlamydia among females. Queries included “repeat …

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

Social determinants of health play an important role in sexually transmitted disease (STD)
transmission and acquisition; consequently, racial and ethnic disparities among social …

Abstract Background South Africa contains more than one in seven of the world's HIV-
positive population. Knowledge of local variation in levels of HIV infection is important for …

Core groups contain individuals who are regularly infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae and
are able to transmit their infection to a large number of sexual partners. Classical core …

Geographic approaches to sexually transmitted infection (STI) research frequently seek to
identify areas where outreach STI testing may most effectively interrupt continued …

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between social
distance (measured as the geodesic, or shortest distance, between 2 people in a connected …

The authors' purpose was to expand sexually transmitted disease core theory by examining
the roles of person, place, and time in differentiating geographic core areas from outbreak …

PURPOSE: The aim of the study is to describe changes in the spatial distribution of syphilis
before, during, and after an outbreak in Baltimore, MD, by using Bayesian maximum entropy …