New Media Interventions in Youth Sexual Health Promotion and HIV/STI Prevention - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Media Interventions in Youth Sexual Health Promotion and HIV/STI Prevention write by William Brown III. This book was released on 2010. New Media Interventions in Youth Sexual Health Promotion and HIV/STI Prevention available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New Media include a wide range of programs, Internet access tools, and wireless computer-mediated communication devices, which facilitate reciprocal interaction with the media consumer. Integrating traditional media with dynamic communication tools and interactive user feedback, New Media allows for user participation and community formation. Public health leaders, as they actively seek innovative and cost effective health solutions to positively impact individual and community level health, are starting to look towards New Media as a viable option for communication and interaction with the populations they wish to serve. Using data from the field of youth sexual health promotion and HIV/STI prevention, my dissertation aimed to unearth the potential application of New Media in public health by: conducting an overview of relevant literature, constructing a new social ecological model that incorporates New Media, and developing an evaluation plan for a New Media-based sexual health intervention. The first project, the literature review, explored studies and statistics on New Media, and paid particular attention to the potential use of Social Media in youth retention, data collection, information dissemination, and participant privacy and confidentiality. The literature review illuminated what is known about the application of New Media in public health practice and identified that which has yet to be explored. The second project, developing a new social ecological model, examined the various models currently in use and their value in providing a framework to contextualize the individual and his or her environment. An archival case study and interview data were used as exemplars to construct a new social ecological model. This model takes the dynamic nature and utility of New Media into full consideration and unearths the emergence of a second social ecology, the "Virtual." Research and evaluation of public health programs and interventions is key to verifying efficacy and defining applicability. Evaluating health interventions is intrinsically tied to program success and successful outcomes. The third project therefore outlined an evaluation plan for a New Media-based sexual health intervention, InSPOT (an Internet-based sexual partner notification tool for those recently diagnosed with an STI). The evaluation plan was not only developed to evaluate the intervention tool's potential for promoting youth sexual health, but to also act as an example of the level of evaluation necessary to address questions of efficacy. Implications of these projects suggest that: 1) New Media can provide viable and potentially cost effective means of health intervention; 2) there is a New Media-based social ecology which the current public health social ecological model needs to fully take into consideration; and 3) further research and evaluation of New Media-based programs and interventions is imperative if we are to verify its potential applicability in public health practice.
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Sexually Transmitted Infections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sexually Transmitted Infections write by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This book was released on 2021-12-24. Sexually Transmitted Infections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One in five people in the United States had a sexually transmitted infection (STI) on any given day in 2018, totaling nearly 68 million estimated infections. STIs are often asymptomatic (especially in women) and are therefore often undiagnosed and unreported. Untreated STIs can have severe health consequences, including chronic pelvic pain, infertility, miscarriage or newborn death, and increased risk of HIV infection, genital and oral cancers, neurological and rheumatological effects. In light of this, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, through the National Association of County and City Health Officials, commissioned the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to examine the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections in the United States and provide recommendations for action. In 1997, the Institute of Medicine released a report, The Hidden Epidemic: Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Although significant scientific advances have been made since that time, many of the problems and barriers described in that report persist today; STIs remain an underfunded and comparatively neglected field of public health practice and research. The committee reviewed the current state of STIs in the United States, and the resulting report, Sexually Transmitted Infections: Advancing a Sexual Health Paradigm, provides advice on future public health programs, policy, and research.
Promoting Young People's Sexual Health
Promoting Young People's Sexual Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Promoting Young People's Sexual Health write by Roger Ingham. This book was released on 2006-09-27. Promoting Young People's Sexual Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Valuable contributions on different aspects of sexual and reproductive health among young people are presented in this book, with a focus on developing country contexts. Key discussions on issues relating to young people and their sexual activities are brought together in one volume, exploring how these issues are affected by the wider contexts in which they live. The interdisciplinary team of contributors examine the practical and ideological barriers that inhibit progress in the development of educational and service level improvement of young people’s sexual health as well as presenting examples of efforts made to overcome such difficulties. Promoting Young People's Sexual Health looks to the future, proposing ways forward in terms of policy and legislative changes necessary for long term improvements in young people’s sexual health.
Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Adolescents
Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Adolescents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Adolescents write by Karl L. Dehne. This book was released on 2005. Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Adolescents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This document presents a comprehensive literature review, documenting existing experience with the provision of services for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to adolescents. It draws from programme experience worldwide, including the following service delivery models: public and nongovernmental organization health services which have been made adolescent-friendly, sexual and reproductive health clinics and multipurpose centres for young people, school-based or school-linked services, and community-based and private sector services.
Youth-centered Counseling for HIV/STI Prevention and Promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health
Youth-centered Counseling for HIV/STI Prevention and Promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Youth-centered Counseling for HIV/STI Prevention and Promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health write by Alex Peter Vega. This book was released on 2005. Youth-centered Counseling for HIV/STI Prevention and Promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This guide for youth-centered counseling is a tool developed to assist frontline providers in reaching young people and effectively promoting sexual health in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has been developed by the Child and Adolescent Health and HIV/AIDS Units, Family and Community Health Area, PAHO/WHO to assist in reaching young people and effectively promoting sexual health. It contains detailed and theory-based actions and methods to improve the quality of services for young people. Youth-centered counseling, to be effective, must respond to young people's individual sexual behaviour, context, and developmental stage. While the book includes guideline, strategies, and the theoretical underpinnings guiding the practice of counseling, the accompanying CD provides an additional practical tool. Based on experience from youth-centered counseling workshops, the CD serves both for self learning and as teaching materials in a group setting.
