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Disparities in sexually transmitted disease rates across the "eight Americas"Harrell W Chesson
From the Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 39:458-64. 2012....- Sexonomics: a commentary and review of selected sexually transmitted disease studies in the economics literatureHarrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Sex Transm Dis 39:161-6. 2012..The purpose of this review is to highlight selected studies in the economics literature that address sexually transmitted disease (STD)-related topics that are typically not examined in the STD literature... - A brief review of the estimated economic burden of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States: inflation-adjusted updates of previously published cost studiesHarrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Sex Transm Dis 38:889-91. 2011..The annual direct medical cost of sexually transmitted diseases (including human immunodeficiency virus) has been estimated to be $16.9 billion (range: $13.9-$23.0 billion) in 2010 US dollars... - Examining the impact of federally-funded syphilis elimination activities in the USAHarrell Chesson
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Soc Sci Med 67:2059-62. 2008..The recent increases in syphilis in the United States might have been much more pronounced had there been no syphilis elimination activities... 
The cost-effectiveness of the WINGS intervention: a program to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted diseases among high-risk urban womenHarrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
BMC Infect Dis 2:24. 2002..We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of the WINGS project, an intervention to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases among urban women at high risk for sexual acquisition of HIV...- Cost-effectiveness of human papillomavirus vaccination in the United StatesHarrell W Chesson
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:244-51. 2008..This consistency is reassuring because models of varying complexity will be essential tools for policy makers in the development of optimal HPV vaccination strategies... 
The economic value of reductions in gonorrhea and syphilis incidence in the United States, 1990-2003Harrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC Mailstop E 80, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Prev Med 43:411-5. 2006..The objective of this study was to estimate the reduction in direct medical costs associated with reductions in gonorrhea and syphilis incidence in the United States from 1990 to 2003...- Estimated effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of federally funded prevention efforts on gonorrhea rates in the United States, 1971-2003, under various assumptions about the impact of prevention fundingHarrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 33:S140-4. 2006.... - Estimates of primary and secondary syphilis rates in persons with HIV in the United States, 2002Harrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 32:265-9. 2005..In the United States, there is a high rate of HIV coinfection in persons with syphilis... - HIV infections and associated costs attributable to syphilis coinfection among African AmericansHarrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, GA 30324, USA
Am J Public Health 93:943-8. 2003..We estimated the number and cost of syphilis-attributable HIV cases among African Americans... - AIDS mortality may have contributed to the decline in syphilis rates in the United States in the 1990sHarrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Sex Transm Dis 30:419-24. 2003.... - Changes in alcohol consumption and in sexually transmitted disease incidence rates in the United States: 1983-1998Harrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop E 80, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:623-30. 2003..We explored the association between changes in alcohol consumption and sexually transmitted disease (STD) incidence rates at the level of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia... - The estimated direct medical cost of sexually transmitted diseases among American youth, 2000Harrell W Chesson
Health Services Research and Evaluation Branch, Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 36:11-9. 2004..Each year, millions of U.S. youth acquire sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Estimates of the economic burden of STDs can help to quantify the impact of STDs on the nation's youth and on the payers of the cost of their medical care... - Estimates of the annual number and cost of new HIV infections among women attributable to trichomoniasis in the United StatesHarrell W Chesson
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 31:547-51. 2004..Clinical evidence suggests that trichomoniasis facilitates the sexual transmission and acquisition of HIV... - Investigating the potential public health benefit of jail-based screening and treatment programs for chlamydiaKwame Owusu-Edusei
Division of STD Preventions, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Am J Epidemiol 177:463-73. 2013..1%). Jail-based chlamydia screen-and-treat programs have the potential to reduce chlamydia prevalence in communities with high incarceration rates. However, the magnitude of this potential decrease is subject to considerable uncertainty... - The distribution of chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis cases across states and counties in the USA, 2007Harrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Infect 86:iii52-57. 2010..To examine the distribution of chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis in the USA through the use of Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients... - Estimates of the annual direct medical costs of the prevention and treatment of disease associated with human papillomavirus in the United StatesHarrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Vaccine 30:6016-9. 2012..0 billion (12.0%) was for cancer (including $0.4 billion for cervical cancer and $0.3 billion for oropharyngeal cancer), $0.3 billion (3.6%) was for genital warts, and $0.2 billion (2.1%) was for RRP... - The concentration of sexual behaviours in the USA: a closer examination of subpopulationsJami S Leichliter
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road MS E 44, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Infect 86:iii45-51. 2010..To examine the frequency of three sexual behaviours from the most active to the least active members of the population in various subpopulations using measures of inequality... - Decreasing age disparities in syphilis and gonorrhea incidence rates in the United States, 1981--2005Harrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:393-7. 2008..Although the disparity in STD rates across age groups is well documented, changes in the degree of disparity in STD rates across age groups over time have not been examined in detail... - The cost-effectiveness of male HPV vaccination in the United StatesHarrell W Chesson
National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Vaccine 29:8443-50. 2011..The objective of this study was to estimate the cost-effectiveness of adding human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination of 12-year-old males to a female-only vaccination program for ages 12-26 years in the United States... - Influence of epidemic phase on the cost effectiveness of a prevention intervention for sexually transmitted infection: an exploratory analysisHarrell W Chesson
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop E 80, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Infect 83:i25-29. 2007..To explore how the cost effectiveness of a behaviour-change prevention programme for sexually transmitted infection (STI) varies with the phase of an STI epidemic... - Changes in the state-level distribution of primary and secondary syphilis in the USA, 1985-2007Harrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Sex Transm Infect 86:iii58-62. 2010..To examine changes over time in the distribution of primary and secondary syphilis cases across states, using Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients... - Does funding for HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention matter? Evidence from panel dataHarrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Eval Rev 29:3-23. 2005..The authors conclude that funding for STD and HIV prevention, on the whole, appears to have a discernable impact on the incidence of STDs... - Chlamydia screening and pelvic inflammatory disease: Insights from exploratory time-series analysesKwame Owusu-Edusei
CDC, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Am J Prev Med 38:652-7. 2010..Screening for chlamydia has been reported to reduce pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) at the individual level. However, information on population-level association (or causality) is scant... - Treatment cost of acute gonococcal infections: estimates from employer-sponsored private insurance claims data in the United States, 2003-2007Kwame Owusu-Edusei
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Sex Transm Dis 37:316-8. 2010..The estimated average total cost per episode for those who were treated was $210 (male, $227; female, $205). This estimate does not include intangible (e.g., pain) and indirect costs (e.g., lost productivity)... - Assessment of the routine, occupation-based gonorrhea and syphilis screening program in Moscow, Russia: an analysis of sexually transmitted infection prevalence and cost-effectivenessEkaterina V Kourbatova
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Sex Transm Dis 35:453-60. 2008..Objectives of our study were to determine the prevalence of syphilis and gonorrhea in the screened occupational groups in Moscow and to conduct a cost-effectiveness evaluation of the occupational screening program... - The association between racial disparity in income and reported sexually transmitted infectionsKwame Owusu-Edusei
All authors are with the Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Am J Public Health 103:910-6. 2013..Conclusions. Racial disparities in household income may be a more important determinant of racial disparities in reported STI morbidity than are absolute levels of household income... - The estimated direct medical cost of selected sexually transmitted infections in the United States, 2008Kwame Owusu-Edusei
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 40:197-201. 2013..Previous estimates of the total direct cost of STIs are quite dated. We present updated direct medical cost estimates of STIs in the United States... - Using spatial regression methods to examine the association between county-level racial/ethnic composition and reported cases of Chlamydia and gonorrhea: an illustration with data from the state of TexasKwame Owusu-Edusei
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 36:657-64. 2009..Additionally, little is known about the relative magnitudes of the associations between county-level racial/ethnic composition and the 2 most commonly reported sexually transmitted diseases... - The potential health and economic benefits of preventing recurrent respiratory papillomatosis through quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccinationHarrell W Chesson
Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Vaccine 26:4513-8. 2008..More precise estimates of the incidence of RRP are needed, however, to quantify this impact more reliably... - Years of potential life lost and productivity costs because of cancer mortality and for specific cancer sites where human papillomavirus may be a risk factor for carcinogenesis-United States, 2003Donatus U Ekwueme
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Cancer 113:2936-45. 2008.... - Temporal trends in sexual behavior among men who have sex with men in the United States, 2002 to 2006-2010Jami S Leichliter
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 63:254-8. 2013..Our findings that sexual risk decreased as HIV and syphilis increased among MSM suggest that factors in addition to individual-level sexual risk should also be examined in relation to recent disease increases... - Hospitalization cost of congenital syphilis diagnosis from insurance claims data in the United StatesKwame Owusu-Edusei
Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Sex Transm Dis 40:226-9. 2013..We found 44 admission claims with CS diagnosis. The excess cost per case of CS (in 2009 US dollars) was estimated at $9969 (95% confidence interval, $5702-$16,769)...