A population's higher-risk sexual behaviour is associated with its average sexual behaviour—An ecological analysis of subpopulations in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and the United States | Zendy

Chris Kenyon | Zendy; Achilleas Tsoumanis | Zendy; Ilan S. Schwartz | Zendy

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A population's higher-risk sexual behaviour is associated with its average sexual behaviour—An ecological analysis of subpopulations in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and the United States

Author(s) -

Chris Kenyon,

Achilleas Tsoumanis,

Ilan S. Schwartz

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

epidemics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.023

H-Index - 41

eISSN - 1755-4365

pISSN - 1878-0067

DOI - 10.1016/j.epidem.2016.02.002

Subject(s) - decile , demography , population , spearman's rank correlation coefficient , ethnic group , wilcoxon signed rank test , rank correlation , geography , medicine , statistics , mathematics , sociology , anthropology , mann–whitney u test

Given the large variation in the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections between populations it is important to characterize how sexual vary between populations. In this paper we assess how the distribution of lifetime sexual partners varies between populations. We ask: do populations with higher mean lifetime sexual partners merely differ by virtue of the presence of a core-group with increased number of partners or do the population distributions move as more coherent wholes?

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