ArticleSexually transmitted diseases2012
Access to health services and sexually transmitted infections in a cohort of relocating African American public housing residents: an association between travel time and infection.
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- A State-Level Examination into Structural Racism and Racialized Disparities in Sexually Transmitted Infections.Spatial demography · 2025Article
- Estimated Impact of Screening on Gonorrhea Epidemiology in the United States: Insights From a Mathematical Model.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2018Article
- Public Housing Relocations and Relationships of Changes in Neighborhood Disadvantage and Transportation Access to Unmet Need for Medical Care.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2017Article
- Contextual Predictors of Injection Drug Use Among Black Adolescents and Adults in US Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2007.American journal of public health · 2016Article
- Impact of public housing relocations: are changes in neighborhood conditions related to STIs among relocaters?Sexually transmitted diseases · 2014Article
- Public housing relocations in Atlanta, Georgia, and declines in spatial access to safety net primary care.Health & place · 2012Article
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Abstract
backgroundHigh incidence and prevalence of sexually transmitted infection (STI) in blacks have been attributed to multiple factors. However, few articles have discussed spatial access to healthcare as a driver of disparities. The objective of this analysis was to evaluate the relationship between travel time to a healthcare provider and the likelihood of testing positive for 1 of 3 STIs in a sample of adults living in public housing.
methodsOne hundred and eight black adults in Atlanta, GA from November 2008 to June 2009, completed a survey that queried sexual behavior and healthcare use and had urine tested for Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and Trichomonas vaginalis by molecular methods. Travel time was a continuous variable capturing the number of minutes it took to reach the place where participants received most of their care. Multivariate analyses tested the hypothesis that individuals reporting longer travel times would be more likely to test positive for an STI. Travel time was squared to linearize its relationship to the outcome.
resultsThirty-six residents (37.5%) tested positive for ≥1 STI. A curvilinear relationship existed between travel time and STI status. When travel time was <48 minutes, a positive relationship existed between travel time and the odds of testing positive for an STI. An inverse relationship existed when travel time was ≥48 minutes.
conclusionResidents of impoverished communities experience a curvilinear relationship between travel time and STI status. We discuss possible factors that might have created this curvilinear relationship, including voluntary social isolation.
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