Eviction From Renter-occupied Households and Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections: A County-level Ecological Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Housing instability is linked to numerous health outcomes, but the specific impact of eviction from renter-occupied households, an event that has immediate implications for residential stability for low-income individuals, on sexually transmitted infections (STI) rates has not been adequately studied.

Methods

We examined county-level associations between eviction rates in 2014 and rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea in the following year using publicly available data sources (Eviction Lab National Database and AtlasPlus, respectively). Descriptive statistics compared medians and nonparametric distributions with Krusal-Wallis tests. Linear regression was used to compare tertile categories of eviction rates and STI rates while controlling for potential confounders.

SUBMITTER: Niccolai LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6289707 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature