Smith H L
Population Studies Center and Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.
Health Transit Rev. 1993 Apr;3(1):1-16.
Population surveys concerning 'risk behaviours' thought to be related to the AIDS epidemic are many. Nevertheless, unfocused inquiry into diffuse behaviours in undifferentiated populations is not productive in low-seroprevalence populations, especially when the point is to design some form of intervention that might actually avert further infection. This is because of a failure to distinguish conceptually between the relevance of AIDS-related behavioural data for individuals and for populations. An illustration is drawn from the AIDS epidemic in Santiago, Chile, and an alternative perspective, based on extensive interviews with persons with AIDS and a survey of current HIV-surveillance and blood-screening programs, is described.
关于被认为与艾滋病流行相关的“危险行为”的人口调查有很多。然而，在血清流行率较低的人群中，对未分化人群中的广泛行为进行无重点的调查并无成效，尤其是当目的是设计某种可能真正避免进一步感染的干预形式时。这是因为在概念上未能区分艾滋病相关行为数据对个体和对人群的相关性。本文以智利圣地亚哥的艾滋病流行为例，并描述了一种基于对艾滋病患者的广泛访谈以及对当前艾滋病毒监测和血液筛查项目的调查得出的不同观点。
