Titre :
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Application of the Time-Series Approach to Assess the Temporal Trend of Racial Disparity in Chlamydia Prevalence in the US National Job Training Program. (2011)
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Auteurs :
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Lin-H TIAN ;
Jim-R BRAXTON ;
Samuel-L GROSECLOSE ;
Catherine LINDSEY SATTERWHITE
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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American journal of epidemiology (vol. 173, n° 2, 2011)
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Pagination :
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217-224
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Série chronologique
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Tendance séculaire
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Race
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Chlamydia
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Chlamydiose
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Prévalence
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Programme
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Epidémiologie
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Bactérie
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Bactériose
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Infection
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Amérique
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Amérique du Nord
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS IBR0xFrB. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The authors applied a time-series approach to assess the temporal trend of racial disparity in chlamydia prevalence between young, socioeconomically disadvantaged blacks and whites entering the US National Job Training Program. Racial disparity was defined as the arithmetic difference between age group-specimen type-and region of residence-standardized chlamydia prevalences in blacks and whites. A regression with autoregressive moving average errors model was employed to adjust for serial correlation. Data from 46,849 women (2006-2008) and 136,892 men (2004-2008) were analyzed. Racial disparity significantly decreased among women (by an average of 0.122% per 2-month interval ; P
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