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. 2015 Jul:34:9-18.
doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2015.03.008. Epub 2015 Apr 7.

Mapping U.S. long-haul truck drivers' multiplex networks and risk topography in inner-city neighborhoods

Yorghos Apostolopoulos  1 , Sevil Sönmez  2 , Michael Kenneth Lemke  3 , Richard B Rothenberg  4
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Mapping U.S. long-haul truck drivers' multiplex networks and risk topography in inner-city neighborhoods

Yorghos Apostolopoulos et al. Health Place. 2015 Jul.

Abstract

This article illustrates how urban inner-city trucking milieux may influence STI/BBI/HIV acquisition and transmission risks for U.S. long-haul truckers, as well as their social and risk relationships. Using mixed methods, we collected ethnoepidemiological and biological data from long-haul truck drivers and their risk contacts in inner-city trucking milieux in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Key findings indicate that within the risk-endemic environment of distressed inner-city areas, diverse trucking risk milieux can amplify STI/BBI/HIV risk for multiplex networks of truckers. Inner-city neighborhood location, short geographic distance among risk contacts, and trucker concurrency can potentially exacerbate transmission via bridging higher-risk individuals with lower-risk populations at disparate geographic and epidemiological locations.

Keywords: Drugs; Geography of risk; Long-haul truck drivers; Networks; STIs.

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Figure 1
Schematic illustration of trucking risk milieux in inner-city Atlanta, Georgia.
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Figure 2
Actual risk-enabling trucking milieux in inner-city Atlanta, Georgia.
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Figure 3
Trucking settings near Moreland Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia.
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Figure 4
Truckers' multiplex networks in inner-city Atlanta, Georgia (roles noted in boxes exist beyond the Atlanta study sites).
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Figure 5
Single cluster within actual multiplex network of truckers in inner-city Atlanta.
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