of gonorrhea. Unadjusted means are given
in Table 4.
Discussion
The results suggest that physical deterioration
of a neighborhood is either a
marker for a risk factor for gonorrhea or
itself a risk factor for gonorrhea. Our data
suggest that traditional variables associated
with STDs (i.e., poverty, race, and unemployment)
do not provide as robust an
explanation for gonorrhea as is the broken
windows factor, a measure of neighborhood
deterioration. We have insufficient