- Preface to the fifth edition
- Introduction to Volume 1: The scope of public health
- Introduction to Volume 2: The methods of public health
- Introduction to Volume 3: The practice of public health
- List of contributors
- Section 1 The development of the discipline of public health
- Section 2 Determinants of health and disease
- Section 3 Public health policies
- Section 4 Public health law and ethics
- Section 5 Information systems and sources of intelligence
- Section 6 Epidemiological and biostatistical approaches
- Section 7 Social science techniques
- Section 8 Environmental and occupational health sciences
- Section 9 Major health problems
- 9.1 Gene–environment interactions and public health
- 9.2 Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
- 9.3 Neoplasms
- 9.4 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma
- 9.5 Obesity
- 9.6 The epidemiology and prevention of diabetes mellitus
- 9.7 Public mental health
- 9.8 Dental public health
- 9.9 Musculoskeletal diseases
- 9.10 Neurologic diseases, epidemiology, and public health
- 9.11 The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
- 9.12 Sexually transmitted infections
- 9.13 Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- 9.14 Tuberculosis
- 9.15 Malaria
- 9.16 Chronic hepatitis and other liver disease
- 9.17 Emerging and re-emerging infections
- Section 10 Prevention and control of public health hazards
- Section 11 Public health needs of population groups
- Section 12 Public health functions
- Index
(p. 1173) Sexually transmitted infections
- Chapter:
- (p. 1173) Sexually transmitted infections
- Author(s):
Mary L. Kamb
and John M. Douglas
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199218707.003.0069
Sexually transmitted infections (STI) are among the world’s most common diseases. More than 20 organisms and at least as many syndromes are recognized as being transmissible through vaginal, anal, or oral sex, including human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV), discussed separately in Chapter 9.13 (Table 9.13.1). Globally, annual incidence of bacterial STI is exceeded only by diarrhoeal diseases, malaria, and lower respiratory infections (World Health Organization 2007). In the United States, two bacterial STI, chlamydia and gonorrhoea, are the first and second most commonly reported of all notifiable diseases (CDC 2006). Even so, the burden of bacterial STI is small when compared to that of viral STI such as human papillomavirus (HPV) and herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), the former leading to persistent long-term infection in many and the latter resulting in lifelong infection in all those infected.
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- Preface to the fifth edition
- Introduction to Volume 1: The scope of public health
- Introduction to Volume 2: The methods of public health
- Introduction to Volume 3: The practice of public health
- List of contributors
- Section 1 The development of the discipline of public health
- Section 2 Determinants of health and disease
- Section 3 Public health policies
- Section 4 Public health law and ethics
- Section 5 Information systems and sources of intelligence
- Section 6 Epidemiological and biostatistical approaches
- Section 7 Social science techniques
- Section 8 Environmental and occupational health sciences
- Section 9 Major health problems
- 9.1 Gene–environment interactions and public health
- 9.2 Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
- 9.3 Neoplasms
- 9.4 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma
- 9.5 Obesity
- 9.6 The epidemiology and prevention of diabetes mellitus
- 9.7 Public mental health
- 9.8 Dental public health
- 9.9 Musculoskeletal diseases
- 9.10 Neurologic diseases, epidemiology, and public health
- 9.11 The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
- 9.12 Sexually transmitted infections
- 9.13 Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- 9.14 Tuberculosis
- 9.15 Malaria
- 9.16 Chronic hepatitis and other liver disease
- 9.17 Emerging and re-emerging infections
- Section 10 Prevention and control of public health hazards
- Section 11 Public health needs of population groups
- Section 12 Public health functions
- Index