Are Neighborhood Sociocultural Factors Influencing the Spatial Pattern of Gonorrhea in North Carolina?

Purpose To determine if the spatial pattern of gonorrhea observed for North Carolina was influenced by neighborhood-level sociocultural determinants of health, including race/ethnicity. Methods A generalized linear mixed model with spatially correlated random effects was fit to measure the influence...

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Volume:	21
Main Author:	Sullivan, Ashleigh B., MPH Gesink, Dionne C., PhD Brown, Patrick, PhD Zhou, Lutong, MSc Kaufman, Jay S., PhD Fitch, Molly, MSc Serre, Marc L., PhD Miller, William C., MD, PhD
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	NEW YORK Elsevier Inc 2011 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
published in:	Annals of epidemiology Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 245 - 252
ORCID:	0000-0002-1934-7827 0000-0003-1606-401X 0000-0003-2541-3744
Data of publication:	2011
ISSN:	1047-2797 1873-2585
EISSN:	1873-2585
Discipline:	Medicine Public Health Geography
Subjects:	Internal Medicine Social Epidemiology Spatial Analysis Bayesian Analysis Gonorrhea Life Sciences & Biomedicine Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Science & Technology Geography Urban Health - statistics & numerical data Demography - statistics & numerical data Humans Risk Factors Linear Models Male Gonorrhea - ethnology Socioeconomic Factors Rural Health - statistics & numerical data Residence Characteristics - statistics & numerical data Sex Factors Female Gonorrhea - epidemiology North Carolina - epidemiology Cluster Analysis Index Medicus North Carolina SES RR Social Epidemiology Bayesian Analysis rural-urban commuting area codes CI Gonorrhea STIs Spatial Analysis sexually transmitted infections RUCAs relative rate confidence interval socioeconomic status SYPHILIS URBAN RATES TRANSMISSION SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS DISEASES SOCIAL-CONTEXT SOUTHEASTERN UNITED-STATES HEALTH SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2011 Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded - 2011 Web of Knowledge Science Citation Index Expanded Web of Science MEDLINE (Ovid) PubMed MEDLINE MEDLINE MEDLINE Medline CrossRef MEDLINE - Academic Database information Databases - DBIS