Search results for ""Author Kaye Wellings""
Policy Press Decriminalising Abortion in the UK
Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Written by leading experts in the fields of medicine, law, reproductive health and social science, this book offers a concise and authoritative account of the evidence regarding the likely impact of decriminalisation of abortion in the UK.Table of ContentsIntroduction: what would it mean to decriminalise abortion? ~ Sally Sheldon and Kaye Welling Is public opinion in support of decriminalisation? ~ Ann Marie Gray and Kaye Wellings How would decriminalisation impact on women’s health? ~ Patricia Lohr, Jonathan Lord and Sam Rowlands Would decriminalisation mean the deregulation of abortion services? ~ Jonathan Herring, Emily Jackson and Sally Sheldon What would be effects of decriminalisation in Northern Ireland? ~ Marie Fox and Goretti Horgan How would decriminalisation impact on the incidence of abortion? ~ Ronnie Johnson, Louise Keogh and Wendy Norman
£12.34
Open University Press Sexual Health A Public Health Perspective
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 valuaTable of ContentsOverview of the bookSection 1: Conceptual and Theoretical Aspects of Sexual HealthSexual health: theoretical perspectives Section 2: Sexual Health OutcomesSexually Transmitted Infections Unplanned pregnancySexual violenceSexual function, pleasure and satisfaction Section 3: Risk and VulnerabilityYoung PeopleSex between men Sex workers Mobile populations Structural influences on sexual healthSection 4: Interventions to Improve Sexual HealthCommunication and language Sexual health promotionSex education: theory and practiceSexual health servicesSection 5: Measuring and Assessing Sexual Health StatusResearching sexual behaviour Evaluating sexual health interventions
£30.39
