Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective
This book will provide readers with an overview of the core knowledge and issues in public mental health, and a guide for students and practitioners on the evidence and tools available to help them develop Public Mental Health programs that work in practice.
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Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective
This book will provide readers with an overview of the core knowledge and issues in public mental health, and a guide for students and practitioners on the evidence and tools available to help them develop Public Mental Health programs that work in practice.
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Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective

Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective

Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective

Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective

Overview

This book will provide readers with an overview of the core knowledge and issues in public mental health, and a guide for students and practitioners on the evidence and tools available to help them develop Public Mental Health programs that work in practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780335244812
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: 10/01/2012
Series: Understanding Public Health
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Kaye Wellings is Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Head of the Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She is a founder of and Principal Investigator on the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles and she is internationally recognised as an expert in sexual health.

Kirstin Mitchell is Lecturer in Sexual and Reproductive Health at the LSHTM. She has lived and worked for extensive periods in Africa and is currently working on the third UK National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles.

Martine Collumbien is Senior Lecturer in Sexual and Reproductive Health at the LSHTM. She is a demographer by training with extensive experience of methodological and evaluation research. Her work has a global reach, with a particular focus on South Asia.

Table of Contents

Overview of the book

Section 1: Conceptual and Theoretical Aspects of Sexual Health
Sexual health: theoretical perspectives

Section 2: Sexual Health Outcomes
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Unplanned pregnancy
Sexual violence
Sexual function, pleasure and satisfaction

Section 3: Risk and Vulnerability
Young People
Sex between men
Sex workers
Mobile populations
Structural influences on sexual health

Section 4: Interventions to Improve Sexual Health
Communication and language
Sexual health promotion
Sex education: theory and practice
Sexual health services

Section 5: Measuring and Assessing Sexual Health Status
Researching sexual behaviour
Evaluating sexual health interventions

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