McGarrigle C A, Fenton K A, Gill O N, Hughes G, Morgan D, Evans B
HIV/STI Division, Public Health Laboratory Service, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, 61 Colindale Ave, London NW9 5EQ, UK.
Sex Transm Infect. 2002 Dec;78(6):398-405. doi: 10.1136/sti.78.6.398.
Behavioural surveillance programmes have enabled the description of population patterns of risk behaviours for STI and HIV transmission and aid in the understanding of how epidemics of STI are generated. They have been instrumental in helping to refine public health interventions and inform the targeting of sexual health promotion and disease control strategies. The formalization and coordination of behavioural surveillance in England and Wales could optimise our ability to measure the impact of interventions and health promotion strategies on behaviour. This will be particularly useful for monitoring the progress towards specific disease control targets set in the Department of Health's new Sexual Health and HIV Strategy.
行为监测项目有助于描述性传播感染和艾滋病毒传播的风险行为人群模式,并有助于理解性传播感染疫情是如何产生的。它们在帮助完善公共卫生干预措施以及为性健康促进和疾病控制策略的目标设定提供信息方面发挥了重要作用。英格兰和威尔士行为监测的正规化和协调工作能够优化我们衡量干预措施和健康促进策略对行为影响的能力。这对于监测在卫生部新的《性健康和艾滋病毒战略》中设定的特定疾病控制目标方面取得的进展将特别有用。