Open AccessA New Scale for Measuring Dynamic Patterns of Sexual Partnership and Concurrency
Author(s) -
Françoise Le Pont,
Nicolas Lévy,
PierreYves Boëlle
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/00007435-200301000-00002
Subject(s) - concurrency , martinique , demography , scale (ratio) , population , medicine , computer science , geography , west indies , sociology , cartography , ethnology , operating system
Quantitative assessment of multiple sexual partnerships and concurrency may help to elucidate the large observed differences in the prevalence of AIDS among population subgroups and countries.