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Effect of Concurrent Partnerships and Sex-Act Rate on Gonorrhea Prevalence
dc.contributor.authorWelch, Gavinen_US
dc.contributor.authorChick, Stephen E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKoopman, Jamesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-14T13:37:32Z
dc.date.available2010-04-14T13:37:32Z
dc.date.issued1998en_US
dc.identifier.citationWelch, Gavin; Chick, Stephen; Koopman, James (1998). "Effect of Concurrent Partnerships and Sex-Act Rate on Gonorrhea Prevalence." Simulation 71(4): 242-249. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68414>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0037-5497en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68414
dc.description.abstractThe disease gonorrhea (GC) is a major public health problem in the United States, and the dynamics of the spread of GC through popula tions are complicated and not well understood. Studies have drawn attention to the effect of concurrent sexual partnerships as an influen tial factor for determining disease prevalence. However, little has been done to date to quantify the combined effects of concurrency and within-partnership sex-act rates on the prevalence of GC. This simulation study examines this issue with a simplified model of GC transmission in closed human populations that include concurrent partnerships. Two models of within-partnership sex-act rate are compared; one is a fixed sex-act rate per partnership, and the other is perhaps more realistic in that the rate depends on the number of concurrent partners. After controlling for total number of sex acts, pseudo-equilibrium prevalence is higher with the fixed sex-act rate than under the concurrency-adjusted rate in all the modeled partnership formation conditions.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.subject.otherEpidemicen_US
dc.subject.otherMixing Modelen_US
dc.subject.otherPart Nership Formationen_US
dc.subject.otherSexually Transmitted Diseaseen_US
dc.subject.otherTransmissionen_US
dc.subject.otherConcurrencyen_US
dc.subject.otherSex-act Ratesen_US
dc.subject.otherGonorrheaen_US
dc.titleEffect of Concurrent Partnerships and Sex-Act Rate on Gonorrhea Prevalenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelEngineeringen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartment of Epidemiology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartment of Industrial and Operations Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartment of Epidemiology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michiganen_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/003754979807100404en_US
dc.identifier.sourceSimulationen_US
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