Collecting and exploiting data to understand a nation's sexual health needs: Implications for the British National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal)

Catherine H Mercer¹, Soazig Clifton^{2

3}, Gillian Prior³, Robert W Aldridge⁴, Chris Bonell⁵, Andrew J Copas², Nigel Field², Jo Gibbs², Wendy Macdowall⁵, Kirstin R Mitchell⁶, Clare Tanton⁷, Nick Thomson⁸, Magnus Unemo^{9

10}, Pam Sonnenberg²

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK c.mercer@ucl.ac.uk.
² Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
³ NatCen Social Research, London, UK.
⁴ Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁶ MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁷ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁸ Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK.
⁹ WHO Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and Other STIs, Örebro, Sweden.
¹⁰ National Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.

PMID: 30890634
PMCID: PMC6580741
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2018-053571

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Collecting and exploiting data to understand a nation's sexual health needs: Implications for the British National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal)

Catherine H Mercer et al. Sex Transm Infect. 2019 May.

. 2019 May;95(3):159-161.

doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2018-053571. Epub 2019 Mar 19.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK c.mercer@ucl.ac.uk.
² Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
³ NatCen Social Research, London, UK.
⁴ Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁶ MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁷ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁸ Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK.
⁹ WHO Collaborating Centre for Gonorrhoea and Other STIs, Örebro, Sweden.
¹⁰ National Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.

PMID: 30890634
PMCID: PMC6580741
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2018-053571

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Correction: Collecting and exploiting data to understand a nation's sexual health needs: Implications for the British National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal).
[No authors listed] [No authors listed] Sex Transm Infect. 2019 Aug;95(5):393. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2018-053571corr1. Epub 2019 May 28. Sex Transm Infect. 2019. PMID: 31138718 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

No abstract available

Keywords: methodology; sexual behavior; sexual health; survey.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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