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Chlamydia detection rate among females ages 15 to 24 per 100,000 population (8165) Metric type
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- This is all chlamydia diagnoses in females aged 15 to 24 years attending sexual health services (SHS) and community-based settings who are residents in England, expressed as a rate per 100,000 population. Data excludes people accessing services located in England who are residents in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or abroad. The England total includes tests which did not have sufficient location information to be attributed to a local authority of residence. The chlamydia detection rate amongst under 25 year olds is a measure of chlamydia control activities. It represents infections identified (reducing risk of sequelae in those patients and interrupting transmission onto others). Increasing detection rates indicates increased control activity: it is not a measure of morbidity.
Chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection in England, with rates substantially higher in young adults than any other age group. By diagnosing and treating asymptomatic chlamydia infections, chlamydia screening can reduce the duration of infection, which will reduce an individual's chance of developing complications, and also reduce the time when someone is at risk of passing the infection on, which in turn will reduce the spread of chlamydia in the population.
Numbers between 1 and 4 with a population less than 10,000 are suppressed. Where counts for Isles of Scilly or City of London are between 1 and 4, these are combined with Cornwall or Hackney respectively.
- Modified
- 20 Nov 2023
- Data last updated
- 21 Nov 2023
- Also known as
- PHOF D02a - females
- Short label
- Chlamydia detection rate / 100,000 aged 15-24 (female)
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a high value is good
- Measure
- Rate per 100000 People
- Dataset
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles (annual)
- Collection
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles
- Source
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
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