Download or read book Canadian Youth Sexual Health and HIV written by William F. (William Francis) Boyce and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring Black Canadian Parent Youth Sex Communication written by Nakia Lee-Foon and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education written by and published by Community Acquired Infections Division Centre for Infectious. This book was released on 2008 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education written by Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (Canada). Division of STD Control and published by Division of STD Control, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control and Health Service Systems Division, Health Canada. This book was released on 1994 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document proposes a framework that accommodates general principles for the development and delivery of sexual health education. Guideline statements support each principle and provide a frame of reference for effective sexual health education programs and policies in Canada. More precisely, topics covered are: framework; principles of sexual health education; components of sexual health education; a checklist for using the guidelines; defining sexual health; and research in sexual health education.
Download or read book Canadian Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Guidelines for Sexual Health Education written by Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control (Canada). Community Acquired Infections Division and published by Community Acquired Infections Division Centre for Infectious. This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These guidelines propose a framework for evaluating existing sexual health education programs & policies and related services available to Canadians. They are also meant to guide professionals in the development of new & effective programs that reinforce behaviours that support sexual health, and offer educators & administrators a broader understanding of the goals & objectives of sexual health education. The document begins with key concepts, and provides a definition, philosophy, & principles of sexual health education. This is followed by an outline of the components of sexual health education and checklists & guidelines for addressing the principles (accessibility, comprehensiveness, effectiveness, training & administrative support, planning & evaluation). The final section discusses the importance of theory & research in sexual health education. The appendix includes examples of criteria to use in assessing programs in relation to the principles found in these guidelines.
Download or read book Canada Youth AIDS Study written by Alan J. C. King and published by Kingston, Ont. : Queen's University at Kingston, Social Program Evaluation Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study funded by the Federal Centre for AIDS through National Health Research and Development Program.
Download or read book Homelessness Health in Canada written by Manal Guirguis-Younger and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brings together leading and emerging researchers to advance understanding of the complex relationships between homelessness and health. Covering a wide range of topics from youth homelessness to end-of-life care, contributors outline policy and practice recommendations to respond to this public health crisis."--Back cover.
Download or read book Impact of an HIV AIDS Sexual Health Education Program for Youth in Southern Inuit Communities written by Madison Leigh Giles and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV/AIDS data in Canada indicates a steady and disproportionate increase of HIV infections among Indigenous youth. To address this health vulnerability, a community-based research project was conducted to evaluate an HIV/AIDS sexual health presentation specific to youth in Labrador. Ninety-eight students in Grades 7-12 responded to pre- and post-questionnaires to determine, on a short-term basis, their knowledge, attitudes, and programming preferences. Research results demonstrated an increase in overall knowledge and attitudes. Older and female participants gained significant positive attitudes surrounding HIV/AIDS compared to younger and male participants. Students were found to prefer HIV prevention initiatives permeated with games, activities, and demonstrations. Several misconceptions were discovered that call for further education on HIV transmission and stigma. This study provided important insights into gaps in HIV/AIDS education, as well as subgroups that require programming that meets their specific needs. These insights can be utilized to tailor sexual health education to be more reflective of, and effective for, youth in Southern Inuit communities.
Download or read book Promoting Young People s Sexual Health written by Roger Ingham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sexual Risk Behaviours of Canadians written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report updates information on the sexual behaviour of the general Canadian population with regard to the following: multiple partners & condom use; adolescent sexual behaviour, including unprotected intercourse; and groups with higher-risk sexual behaviour such as homosexual & bisexual men, injection drug users, and street youth.
Download or read book Consolidated Guideline on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women Living with HIV written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he starting point for this guideline is the point at which a woman has learnt that she is living with HIV and it therefore covers key issues for providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights-related services and support for women living with HIV. As women living with HIV face unique challenges and human rights violations related to their sexuality and reproduction within their families and communities as well as from the health-care institutions where they seek care particular emphasis is placed on the creation of an enabling environment to support more effective health interventions and better health outcomes. This guideline is meant to help countries to more effectively and efficiently plan develop and monitor programmes and services that promote gender equality and human rights and hence are more acceptable and appropriate for women living with HIV taking into account the national and local epidemiological context. It discusses implementation issues that health interventions and service delivery must address to achieve gender equality and support human rights.
Download or read book Challenging the Behavioural Model written by Charlene Patricia Cook and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The optimal model to support adolescent sexual health is the concurrent use of hormonal birth control and condoms. This dual protection approach prioritizes protection against unplanned pregnancy as well as sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In order to explore individual, interpersonal and structural factors that influence adolescent protection use, multivariate Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID) analysis was completed with a national sample of adolescents (n=2320) from the 2002 Canadian Youth, Sexual Health, and HIV/AIDS Study. CHAID is a decision tree method which assesses interactions between significant independent variables to optimize prediction of the dependent variable (i.e. safer-sex protection method).The results indicate that structural factors, in concert with individual and interpersonal factors, play a vital role in understanding adolescent safer-sex practices. Policy and practice implications include revisions to sexual health curricula, sexual health service accessibility for all adolescents, and targeted prevention programming for adolescents at highest risk. Further research into the sexual health of male adolescents and the influence of structural factors on sexual health among diverse samples should be prioritized.Among adolescent females, the following factors were associated with dual protection use: high condom intentions; having lived with both biological parents; having accessed a medical professional or media as the primary source of HIV/AIDS information; having utilized a medical professional as the primary source of sexual health information; having never had unwanted sex; having not consumed alcohol and/or drugs before sex; frequent sexual activity; having identified a medical professional as the primary source of STD advice; having been tested for STDs; and having supported the importance of talking about condoms with a partner. Among adolescent males, dual protection was associated with: high condom intentions; frequent sexual activity; the belief that both partners are responsible for condom use; having been born in Canada; having noted uncertain or high levels of religiosity; having been older than 14 at first sexual intercourse; having been able to speak with their father about sex; having accessed a medical professional or media as the primary source of HIV/AIDS information; and having reported a peer group that did not use tobacco.
Download or read book Theatre based Peer Education for Youth written by Josephine Margaret MacIntosh and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV/AIDS continues to challenge prevention, care and treatment efforts and presents an increasingly urgent threat to population health. In the context of prevention, this fatal sexually transmitted infection (STI) underscores the importance of providing youth (the fastest growing risk group) with adequate information, motivation, behavioural skills, and access to resources that support the achievement and maintenance of sexual health across the lifespan. However, youth have proven to be a difficult audience to reach, particularly with educational programs that approach adolescent sexuality from an adult frame of reference, one that often stresses the negative aspects of human sexuality. Yet many of the tasks associated with a successful transition into adulthood and social integration depend upon the ability to initiate and maintain long-term, intimate sexual relationships. Using a case study methodology, this research?which was conducted in British Columbia, Canada?investigated the potential effects of an innovative theatre-based, peer-led HIV prevention/sexuality education program on four groups of high school students and the peer leaders. The potential of theatre-in-education was examined to determine if this format would engage youth audiences?and keep them engaged?and if it would have a positive impact on self-reported confidence in performing risk-reduction behaviours. The results from the four case studies strongly suggest that peer-led theatre presented in conjunction with peer-led discussion has the potential to not only engage youth between 12 and 17, but to also increase self-reported confidence in their ability reduce risk. In two of the cases, engagement was high and constant; while the two other cases demonstrated that the format has a strong potential for drawing more reluctant audiences into discussions over time. In all cases, confidence reportedly increased. Further to this, audiences reported gains in knowledge, improvements in behavioural and communication skills, and increased motivation to use condoms and to access sexual health care. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, there were reports of increased communication about sexual health issues, the development of greater compassion and tolerance, along with the desire to avoid stigmatizing HIV-positive individuals and sexual minorities. The peer leaders reported comparable effects. Given that stigma has been identified as the most persistent barrier to HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, embedding peer-led theatre programs?focused on sexuality and HIV prevention?into currently existing theatre arts curricula within the public school system offers a powerful and cost-effective means of providing comprehensive sexual health education. It would be shrewd (from both a social and economic perspective) for education ministries and school districts to capitalize on the positive aspects of adolescent peer networks and youths' natural tendency to learn from one another. This research, while based on informed judgment, adequacy and plausibility rather than on the gold standard of a randomized control trial, arguably provides initial evidence that the theatre-in-education format is worthy of implementation on a wider scale. Investing in the set-up, maintenance and rigorous evaluation of peer-led theatre-in-education programs which focus on sexuality has the potential to normalize safer sexual practices and improve population health, for this generation and generations to come.
Download or read book Promoting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in East and Southern Africa written by Knut-Inge Klepp and published by Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. This book was released on 2008 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Africa, as in many parts of the world, adolescent reproductive health is a controversial issue for policy makers and programme planners. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS and to a host of other problems such as sexually transmitted infection, unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortions, sexual abuse, female genital mutilation and unsafe circumcision. Yet many countries do not have adolescent health policies in place and much remains to be done to ensure that adolescents can access appropriate sexual and reproductive health services. The authors of this volume present new perspectives and strategies to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health. In particular, they make a unique attempt to bring together social and biomedical science and to disseminate concrete empirical evidence from existing programmes, carefully analysing what works and what does not at the local level.
Download or read book Young People in Canada written by William Francis Boyce and published by Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sexual Health and HIV STI Training of Public Health Practitioners in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
