Population movement can sustain STI prevalence in remote Australian indigenous communities
Population movement can sustain STI prevalence in remote Australian indigenous communities Journal Article
BMC Infectious Diseases
- Author(s): Hui, Ben B., Gray, Richard T., Wilson, David P., Ward, James S., Smith, Anthony M. A., Philip, David J., Law, Matthew G., Hocking, Jane S., Regan, David G.
- Published: 2013
- Volume: 13
- ISBN: 1471-2334
Abstract: For almost two decades, chlamydia and gonorrhoea diagnosis rates in remote Indigenous communities have been up to 30 times higher than for non-Indigenous Australians. The high levels of population movement known to occur between remote communities may contribute to these high rates.
- Urls: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-188
- Keywords: Mobility, Indigenous population, Remote communities, Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea
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Hui, Ben B., Gray, Richard T., Wilson, David P., Ward, James S., Smith, Anthony M. A., Philip, David J., Law, Matthew G., Hocking, Jane S., Regan, David G.,
2013,
Population movement can sustain STI prevalence in remote Australian indigenous communities,
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