Journal article
Are Australian sexual health clinics attracting priority populations?
H Ali, B Donovan, CK Fairley, N Ryder, A McNulty, MY Chen, L Marshall, CC O'Connor, B Dickson, AE Grulich, ME Hellard, JM Kaldor, RJ Guy
Sexual Health | CSIRO PUBLISHING | Published : 2013
DOI: 10.1071/SH13066
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 χ2-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-..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The 'ACCESS project' is funded by the Health Departments of New South Wales, Victoria, Northern Territory, and the Australian Capital Territory. We thank all sexual health clinics that provided data for ACCESS (available online as Supplementary Material to this paper).