Exploring Preventive Healthcare in a High-Risk Vulnerable Population

Trisha L. Amboree, Jane R. Montealegre, Kayo Fujimoto, Osaro Mgbere, Charles Darkoh and Paige Padgett Wermuth
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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
Jane R. Montealegre: Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, 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
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
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

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 8, 1-12

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.

Keywords: preventive healthcare; sexual health; preventive medicine; public health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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