Thrash Courtney, Welch-Lazoritz Melissa, Gauthier Gertrude, Khan Bilal, Abadie Roberto, Dombrowski Kirk, De Leon Sandra Miranda, Rolon Colon Yadira
a University of Nebraska , Lincoln , Nebraska.
b Puerto Rico Department of Health , San Juan , Puerto Rico.
J Ethn Subst Abuse. 2018 Apr-Jun;17(2):199-222. doi: 10.1080/15332640.2017.1326864. Epub 2017 Jun 30.
Understanding the short- and long-term transmission dynamics of blood-borne illnesses in network contexts represents an important public health priority for people who inject drugs and the general population that surrounds them. The purpose of this article is to compare the risk networks of urban and rural people who inject drugs in Puerto Rico. In the current study, network characteristics are drawn from the sampling "trees" used to recruit participants to the study. We found that injection frequency is the only factor significantly related to clustering behavior among both urban and rural people who inject drugs.
了解网络环境下血源性疾病的短期和长期传播动态,对于注射毒品者及其周围的普通人群而言,是一项重要的公共卫生优先事项。本文旨在比较波多黎各城市和农村注射毒品者的风险网络。在当前研究中,网络特征取自用于招募研究参与者的抽样“树”。我们发现,注射频率是与城市和农村注射毒品者的聚集行为显著相关的唯一因素。