Economic and Other Societal Determinants of the Prevalence of Hiv
A Test of Competing Hypotheses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2277136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Alex Mcintosh (Texas A&M University, corresponding author), John K Thomas (0000-0001-7735-637X, Texas A&M University) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 303-324 |
| Publication date | 2004-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/tsq.2004.45.2.303 |
| OpenAlex | W4232746625 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 57 |
The spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is believed to result from HIV-infected individuals who are unaware of their infection and, thus, the possible consequences of their sexual behavior for others. However, differential rates of HIV infection between countries may reflect a different set of circumstances. We obtained data from the World Bank and several other sources to test eight alternative explanations for the global differences in prevalence of HIV infection: (1) economic underdevelopment, (2) inadequate public health care, (3) insufficient media, (4) political instability, (5) overurbanization, (6) social inequity, (7) religion, and (8) region. Our regression findings showed that income inequality and political instability had statistically significant positive effects on HIV/AIDS prevalence and that gender equality had a negative effect on HIV/AIDS prevalence. Religion and region were also important predictors, as countries that were predominately Muslim and Christian Orthodox generally had lower prevalence of HIV/AIDS, whereas West Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa had a higher prevalence of HIV/AIDS. None of the public health and media indicators were statistically relevant
Biology · Developing country · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Inequality · Political instability · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public health · Sociology · Test (biology) · Underdevelopment · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · Demography · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Immunology · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Virology
Action Tweets Linked to Reduced County-Level HIV Prevalence in the United States
Schools Against Aids
Determinants of HIV prevalence
Gendered Dimensions of the HIV Pandemic
A Cross-National Analysis of Sex-Specific HIV Prevalence Rates and Women's Access to Property, Land, and Loans in Developing Countries
Drought and disproportionate disease
Gender, development, and HIV/Aids
Hold the phone! A cross-national analysis of Women's education, mobile phones, and HIV infections in low- and middle-income countries, 1990-2018
Religion and Sexual Behaviors
Disease, War, Hunger, and Deprivation
Unpacking the Influence of Islamic Religious Culture and Individual Religious Affiliation on Testing HIV-positive
Economic Dependency and HIV/Aids Prevalence in the Developing World
Measuring Gender Disparity in the HIV Pandemic
Non-Governmental Organizations, Democracy, and HIV Prevalence
Ecological Losses are Harming Women
Understanding the role of religion in shaping cross-national and domestic attitudes and interest in abortion, homosexuality, and pornography using traditional and Google search data
The coming plague
Minorities at risk
Human Development Report 1996
Free Markets & Food Riots
World Development Report 1997
Socioeconomic determinants of health
Inequality in income and mortality in the United States
Armed conflict as a public health problem
A Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimator and a Direct Test for Heteroskedasticity
Traditional Asian Medicine and Cosmopolitan Medicine as Adaptive Systems
One World Emerging? Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies
Is there a religious factor in health
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution
Development as Freedom
A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality
World Development Indicators 2000
Handbook of Medical Sociology
The Correlates of War Data On War
Women's Experiences with HIV/Aids
The Social Determinants of the Decline of Life Expectancy in Russia and Eastern Europe
Global and National Sources of Political Protest
World Development Report 1993
Famine That Kills, Darfur, Sudan 1984–1985
Bedouins, Cassettes and Technologies of Public Culture
Does Economic Growth Benefit the Masses? Growth, Dependence, and Welfare in the Third World
Food Security in Less Developed Countries, 1970 to 1990
Explaining Military Coups D'Etat
Confronting Aids
Reassessing Economic Dependency and Uneven Development
Income and inequality as determinants of mortality
White, red and black
Religion and differences in morbidity and mortality
Social change and HIV in the former USSR
Cultural constraints on the delivery of HIV/Aids prevention in Ireland
Contexts and patterns of men's commercial sexual partnerships in northeastern Thailand
Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values
Inequality of income, illiteracy and medical care as determinants of infant mortality in underdeveloped countries
Safe sects? dynamic religion and Aids in South Africa
Routes to Low Mortality in Poor Countries
Aids in the World
Against Death
Borrowing against the Future
Economic Dependence, Overurbanization, and Economic Growth
Infant mortality, public policy and inequality - a comparison of 18 industrialised countries 1950-85
Infant mortality, public policy and inequality -- a comparison of 18 industrialised countries 1950-85
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |