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2011 | San Francisco, California | Chlamydia rate

Summary Information

Range in California
(Min-Max):
77-727
Overall in California: 407
National Benchmark: 83 (90th percentile)

Ranking Methodology

Summary Measure: Health Factors - Health Behaviors (Unsafe Sex)
Weight in Health Factors: 2.5%
Years of Data Used: 2008
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The Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) rate is measured as chlamydia incidence (the number of new cases reported) per 100,000 population.

The county-level measures were obtained from the CDC’s National Center for Hepatitis, HIV, STD, and TB Prevention.

Chlamydia is the most common bacterial STI in North America and is one of the major causes of tubal infertility, ectopic pregnancy, pelvic inflammatory disease, and chronic pelvic pain. STIs in general are associated with a significantly increased risk of morbidity and mortality, including increased risk of cervical cancer, involuntary infertility, and premature death. However, increases in reported chlamydia infections may reflect the expansion of chlamydia screening, use of increasingly sensitive diagnostic tests, an increased emphasis on case reporting from providers and laboratories, improvements in the information systems for reporting, as well as true increases in disease.

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Cases Number of chlamydia cases
Population 2008 Population
Rates per 100,000 Chlamydia cases / Population * 100,000
Z-Score (Measure - Average of CA counties)/(Standard Deviation)
PlaceCasesPopulationRates per 100,000Z-Score
Alameda7,1321,474,3684841.33
Alpine1,061NR
Amador7038,238183-0.74
Butte612220,337278-0.09
Calaveras3646,84377-1.48
Colusa2421,204113-1.23
Contra Costa3,7601,029,7033650.51
Del Norte4229,100144-1.01
El Dorado230176,075131-1.11
Fresno5,576909,1536132.22
Glenn7628,237269-0.15
Humboldt399129,0003090.13
Imperial607163,9723700.54
Inyo4617,136268-0.16
Kern5,822800,4587273.01
Kings540149,5183610.48
Lake8764,866134-1.08
Lassen4834,574139-1.05
Los Angeles46,7079,862,0494741.26
Madera726148,3334891.37
Marin508248,794204-0.60
Mariposa1417,97678-1.47
Mendocino24886,221288-0.02
Merced886246,1173600.47
Modoc129,184131-1.11
Mono2112,774164-0.87
Monterey1,361408,2383330.29
Napa252133,433189-0.70
Nevada14297,118146-1.00
Orange8,5693,010,759285-0.05
Placer651341,945190-0.69
Plumas5520,275271-0.14
Riverside5,0102,100,516239-0.36
Sacramento6,9581,394,1544991.43
San Benito14654,699267-0.17
San Bernardino8,5472,015,3554240.92
San Diego14,3733,001,0724791.29
San Francisco4,125808,9765101.51
San Joaquin3,582672,3885331.67
San Luis Obispo651265,297245-0.32
San Mateo2,030712,690285-0.04
Santa Barbara1,197405,3962950.03
Santa Clara5,6501,764,4993200.20
Santa Cruz674253,137266-0.17
Shasta398180,214221-0.48
Sierra63,263184NR
Siskiyou8144,542182-0.75
Solano2,090407,5155131.53
Sonoma924466,741198-0.64
Stanislaus2,013510,6943940.71
Sutter20292,207219-0.50
Tehama10861,550176-0.80
Trinity1514,317105-1.28
Tulare1,846426,2764330.98
Tuolumne5355,64495-1.35
Ventura2,089797,740262-0.20
Yolo556197,658281-0.07
Yuba21573,0672940.02

NR in Z-Score column indicates county "not ranked"