Description
Book Synopsis"Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective provides a comprehensive, yet a practical resource on sexual health for public health professionals. The book elaborates sexual health from a variety of angles including biomedical, behavioural, social and contextual as well as giving a clear articulation of public health interventions for improving sexual health. Illustrative examples relevant to a variety of settings facilitate understanding and applicability of knowledge to both low- and high-resource settings. The book is highly recommended for public health programmers and practitioners, and those working in the area of sexual health."Dr Lale Say, Co-ordinator, Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR), World Health Organization, UK
"A great and novel approach which demonstrates theoretically and through many examples, the need to consider issues of sexual health by understanding sexuality not as a fact of nature but as a social construction. A valua
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
