ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2012
Neighborhood drug markets: a risk environment for bacterial sexually transmitted infections among urban youth.
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- Exploring spatially varying demographic associations with gonorrhea incidence in Baltimore, Maryland, 2002-2005.Journal of geographical systems · 2020Article
- Evaluation of an Adapted Project Connect Community-based Intervention Among Professionals Serving Young Minority Men.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2019Article
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- Changing Places and Partners: Associations of Neighborhood Conditions With Sexual Network Turnover Among African American Adults Relocated From Public Housing.Archives of sexual behavior · 2017Article
- Assessing Spatial Relationships Between Rates of Crime and Rates of Gonorrhea and Chlamydia in Chicago, 2012.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2017Article
- Associations between neighborhood characteristics and sexual risk behaviors among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women in the southern United States.Annals of epidemiology · 2017Article
- Social place as a location of potential core transmitters-implications for the targeted control of sexually transmitted disease transmission in urban areas.Annals of epidemiology · 2015Article
- Association of exposure to neighborhood drug activity, neurobehavioral traits, and marijuana use among at-risk African American females.Addictive behaviors · 2015Article
- Changes in Exposure to Neighborhood Characteristics are Associated with Sexual Network Characteristics in a Cohort of Adults Relocating from Public Housing.AIDS and behavior · 2015Article
- Social network recruitment for Yo Puedo: an innovative sexual health intervention in an underserved urban neighborhood—sample and design implications.The journal of primary prevention · 2015Article
- Exotic Dance in Baltimore: From Entry to STI/HIV Risk.Women & health · 2015Article
- Are social organizational factors independently associated with a current bacterial sexually transmitted infection among urban adolescents and young adults?Social science & medicine (1982) · 2014Article
- Application of space-time scan statistics to describe geographic and temporal clustering of visible drug activity.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2014Article
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Abstract
We hypothesized that neighborhoods with drug markets, as compared to those without, have a greater concentration of infected sex partners, i.e. core transmitters, and that in these areas, there is an increased risk environment for STIs. This study determined if neighborhood drug markets were associated with a high-risk sex partnership and, separately, with a current bacterial STI (chlamydia and/or gonorrhea) after controlling for individual demographic and sexual risk factors among a household sample of young people in Baltimore City, MD. Analyses also tested whether links were independent of neighborhood socioeconomic status. Data for this study were collected from a household study, systematic social observations and police arrest, public health STI surveillance and U.S. census data. Nonlinear multilevel models showed that living in neighborhoods with household survey-reported drug markets increased the likelihood of having a high-risk sex partnership after controlling for individual-level demographic factors and illicit drug use and neighborhood socioeconomic status. Further, living in neighborhoods with survey-reported drug markets increased the likelihood of having a current bacterial STI after controlling for individual-level demographic and sexual risk factors and neighborhood socioeconomic status. The results suggest that local conditions in neighborhoods with drug markets may play an important role in setting-up risk environments for high-risk sex partnerships and bacterial STIs. Patterns observed appeared dependent on the type of drug market indicator used. Future studies should explore how conditions in areas with local drug markets may alter sexual networks structures and whether specific types of drug markets are particularly important in determining STI risk.
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