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Are Australian sexual health clinics attracting priority populations?

Overview of attention for article published in Sexual Health, August 2013
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Title
Are Australian sexual health clinics attracting priority populations?
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Sexual Health, August 2013
DOI 10.1071/sh13066
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Hammad Ali, Basil Donovan, Christopher K. Fairley, Nathan Ryder, Anna McNulty, Marcus Y. Chen, Lewis Marshall, Catherine C. O’Connor, Bridget Dickson, Andrew E. Grulich, Margaret E. Hellard, John M. Kaldor, Rebecca J. Guy

Abstract

To answer a key question ('Are Australian sexual health clinics attracting priority populations?'), we used data from 44 Australian sexual health clinics between 2004 and 2011. We assessed the proportion of patients that were from priority populations (deemed to be at risk of sexually transmissible infections) and compared this to their proportions in the general population using data from Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Study of Health and Relationships. A χ(2)-test was used. A total of 278154 new patients attended during 2004-2011. The proportions from each priority population were significantly higher (P<0.01 for all) than for the general population: young people aged 15-29 years (58.1% v. 20.1%), men who have sex with men (26.0% v. 6.0%), female sex workers (10.8% v. 0.5%), and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (4.2% v. 2.3%). This study confirms that Australian sexual health clinics attract higher proportions of priority populations and are thus meeting their mandate as defined in the 2010-2013 National Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategy.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 4%
Unknown 22 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 17%
Student > Master 4 17%
Unspecified 3 13%
Student > Bachelor 3 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 9%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 5 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 26%
Unspecified 3 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 9%
Social Sciences 2 9%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 6 26%
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#19,944,091
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