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Exploring Preventive Healthcare in a High-Risk Vulnerable Population

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  • Trisha L. Amboree

    (Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA)

  • Jane R. Montealegre

    (Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA)

  • Kayo Fujimoto

    (Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA)

  • Osaro Mgbere

    (Disease Prevention and Control Division, Houston Health Department, Houston, TX 77054, USA
    Institute of Community Health, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX 77204, USA)

  • Charles Darkoh

    (Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Program, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX 77030, USA)

  • Paige Padgett Wermuth

    (Department of Management, Policy, and Community Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA)

Abstract

This study describes preventive care behaviors and explores opportunities to deliver preventive sexual healthcare to a high-risk vulnerable population. Data from the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance (NHBS) system high-risk heterosexuals (HET) cycle (2019) in Houston, Texas, was used to describe preventive care utilization and assess the relationship between healthcare utilization and sociodemographic characteristics. More than 47% reported having no usual source of healthcare, and 94.6% reported receiving no non-HIV STI testing in the past 12 months. Additionally, many sociodemographic factors were associated with healthcare utilization and having a usual source of healthcare. Future efforts should be targeted at increasing preventive healthcare utilization among high-risk vulnerable populations as well as implementing more preventive sexual healthcare services in the community health centers where these populations most frequently encounter healthcare.

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  • Trisha L. Amboree & Jane R. Montealegre & Kayo Fujimoto & Osaro Mgbere & Charles Darkoh & Paige Padgett Wermuth, 2022. "Exploring Preventive Healthcare in a High-Risk Vulnerable Population," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(8), pages 1-12, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:8:p:4502-:d:789818
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