Sociality and infectious disease prevention and control of sexual and gender minorities in China

ZHANG Yuxin; JIANG Chenyan; WANG Jiwei

doi:10.19428/j.cnki.sjpm.2023.22348

Shanghai yufang yixue (Feb 2023)

Sociality and infectious disease prevention and control of sexual and gender minorities in China

ZHANG Yuxin,
JIANG Chenyan,
WANG Jiwei

Affiliations

ZHANG Yuxin: School of Public Health， Fudan University， Shanghai 200032， China
JIANG Chenyan: Division of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention， Shanghai Municipal Center For Disease Control and Prevention， Shanghai 200336， China
WANG Jiwei: School of Public Health， Fudan University， Shanghai 200032， China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.19428/j.cnki.sjpm.2023.22348
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 35, no. 2
pp. 187 – 190

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Sexual and gender minorities have social behavioral characteristics such as aggregation， mobility， exclusivity， and concealment， which may be associated with the transmission of infectious diseases in this group. This paper aims to explore the relationship between the sociality of this group and its transmission and prevention and control of infectious diseases， emphasize the importance of paying attention to the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases and respiratory diseases in sexual and gender minorities. This paper puts forward some thoughts for infectious disease prevention and control of this group in the future.

Published in Shanghai yufang yixue

ISSN: 1004-9231 (Print)
Publisher: Shanghai Preventive Medicine Association
Country of publisher: China
LCC subjects: Medicine
Website: http://www.sjpm.org.cn/indexen.htm

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