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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

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