Open AccessSociodemographic factors and the variation in syphilis rates among US counties, 1984 through 1993: an ecological analysis.
Author(s) -
Peter H. Kilmarx,
Akbar A. Zaidi,
James C. Thomas,
Allyn K. Nakashima,
Michael E. St. Louis,
Melinda L. Flock,
Thomas A. Peterman
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.87.12.1937
Subject(s) - demography , syphilis , ecological study , bivariate analysis , population , multivariate statistics , multivariate analysis , medicine , census , incidence (geometry) , public health , regression analysis , geography , gerontology , environmental health , statistics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology , mathematics , sociology , geometry , nursing
Syphilis in the United States is focally distributed, with high incidence rates in the South and in metropolitan areas nationwide. In this study an ecological analysis, using the county as the unit of analysis, was performed to generate hypotheses about community-level determinants of syphilis rates.