
Reporting sexual risk behavior for HIV: a practical risk index and a method for improving risk indices.
Author(s) -
Ezra Süsser,
Moïse Desvarieux,
Knut M. Wittkowski
Publication year - 1998
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.88.4.671
Subject(s) - index (typography) , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , environmental health , sexual behavior , medicine , family medicine , clinical psychology , computer science , world wide web
As a means of enhancing public health efforts to control sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), methods were developed to report on risk behavior in a manner that is comparable and widely interpretable.