SOCIETAL DETERMINANTS AS RISK FACTORS OF HIV-INFECTION SPREAD IN REGIONS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Journal: Health risk analysis
Year: 2021

The paper dwells on the results obtained via examining dependence between HIV-infection spread and factors related to social environmental and social structure of population in RF regions. These factors are considered to be potential health risk ones. The authors tested a hypothesis about influence exerted by demographic, economic, cultural and behavioral de- terminants and public healthcare availability on differences in territorial spread of the disease within social-epidemiologic approach. To