Download or read book HIV hepatitis STDs and related risk behaviors among young women residing in low income neighborhoods in northern California written by Juan D. Ruiz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HIV Hepatitis STDs and Related Risk Behaviors Among Young Women Residing in Low Income Neighborhoods in Northern California written by Juan D. Ruiz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hidden Epidemic written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-03-28 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has the dubious distinction of leading the industrialized world in overall rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), with 12 million new cases annually. About 3 million teenagers contract an STD each year, and many will have long-term health problems as a result. Women and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to these diseases and their health consequences. In addition, STDs increase the risk of HIV transmission. The Hidden Epidemic examines the scope of sexually transmitted infections in the United States and provides a critical assessment of the nation's response to this public health crisis. The book identifies the components of an effective national STD prevention and control strategy and provides direction for an appropriate response to the epidemic. Recommendations for improving public awareness and education, reaching women and adolescents, integrating public health programs, training health care professionals, modifying messages from the mass media, and supporting future research are included. The book documents the epidemiological dimensions and the economic and social costs of STDs, describing them as "a secret epidemic" with tremendous consequences. The committee frankly discusses the confusing and often hypocritical nature of how Americans deal with issues regarding sexualityâ€"the conflicting messages conveyed in the mass media, the reluctance to promote condom use, the controversy over sex education for teenagers, and the issue of personal blame. The Hidden Epidemic identifies key elements of effective, culturally appropriate programs to promote healthy behavior by adolescents and adults. It examines the problem of fragmentation in STD services and provides examples of communities that have formed partnerships between stakeholders to develop integrated approaches. The committee's recommendations provide a practical foundation on which to build an integrated national program to help young people and adults develop habits of healthy sexuality. The Hidden Epidemic was written for both health care professionals and people without a medical background and will be indispensable to anyone concerned about preventing and controlling STDs.
Download or read book The HIV STD Prevalence and Risk Behaviors of Street Children Living in the San Diego Tijuana Border Region written by Gisele Anne Norris and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California State Publications written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HIV Infection and Risk Behaviors Among Methamphetamine dependent Drug Users in Northern California written by Guili Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sexually Transmitted Infections written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth written by Alejandro Garcia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth: Prevention Issues and Approaches provides suggestions for support of vulnerable youth who must face chronic disease or death, poverty, drug abuse, and racism, as well as the tribulations that accompany adolescence. Social workers, case managers, psychologists, and nurses who work with HIV-affected and vulnerable youth and their families will find unique recommendations on how to assist these individuals in resisting risky behaviors. This unique collection of research studies expands on the current knowledge while informing us of how much more there is to be learned. This informative book will enlighten you about the children and mothers who are most likely to be affected by the HIV disease, the poor people of color living in substandard housing who are subjected to discrimination and social isolation. The multiple losses experienced by these women and children because of infection, crime, and substance abuse are included in this valuable book but most importantly you will discover how you can alleviate some of the stresses caused by these losses. Through HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth, you will discover multiple ways to successfully help the adolescents in your practice deal with the challenges inherent to HIV, economic hardships, and substance abuse. Comprehensive and intelligent, this important book will help you address the needs of HIV-affected children or families with humanity, sensitivity, and ethnically sensitive interventions. With HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth, you will find unique interventions to help the youth and family in your community by: discovering how facing the mortality of an HIV-infected family member has profound psychological effects on a child or adolescent and how you can help ease this crisis for your clients understanding why many youth who must cope with the eminent death of a family member deal with this crisis by engaging in risky behaviors which may result in HIV infection for themselves realizing that the lack of education about HIV, how it is transmitted, and how to prevent transmission may be part of the problem for high-risk youth learning how some HIV-positive children exhibit stable functioning and resilience in coping with their health, but have difficulties exhibiting the same stability in other aspects of their lives realizing that the social stigma surrounding HIV has not lost its intensity and that this stigma is a part of the everyday reality for HIV-affected children and their families HIV Affected and Vulnerable Youth: Prevention Issues and Approaches brings to light the daily heartache and struggles of HIV-affected children and their families. The day-to-day challenges of families and youths due to HIV-infection, crime, substance abuse, and sometimes where and how they live pose problems to the well-being of these individuals and are significant obstacles to mental-health therapy and health care services. This helpful book offers you several intervention techniques in order to improve the lives of HIV-affected individuals and families in your community.
Download or read book Prevalence of HIV related Sexual Risk Behaviors Among African American and Hispanic Inner City Residents written by Susan Denise Cochran and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HIV related Sexual Behavior Among Youth and Young Adults written by Peter Adam Newman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Volume 6 written by King K. Holmes and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death globally, particularly among children and young adults. The spread of new pathogens and the threat of antimicrobial resistance pose particular challenges in combating these diseases. Major Infectious Diseases identifies feasible, cost-effective packages of interventions and strategies across delivery platforms to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, malaria, adult febrile illness, viral hepatitis, and neglected tropical diseases. The volume emphasizes the need to effectively address emerging antimicrobial resistance, strengthen health systems, and increase access to care. The attainable goals are to reduce incidence, develop innovative approaches, and optimize existing tools in resource-constrained settings.
Download or read book Neighborhood Factors and Their Influence on Adolescent Females Perceptions of STD HIVD IDS and Pregnancy Risk written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage sexual behavior is a serious public health concern in the United States due to risks for STDs, and HIV⁄AIDS. In addition, adolescent pregnancy imposes great taxpayer and other social costs to society. Previous research has shown that neighborhood characteristics influence adolescent females' sexual risk perceptions and behaviors. However, neighborhood characteristics have rarely been compared to adolescents' perceptions of their own neighborhoods when examining perceptions of STDs, HIV⁄AIDS, or pregnancy. In fact, it is reasonable to explore the degree to which adolescents in certain neighborhood contexts may perceive pregnancy as an adaptive strategy. This study uses longitudinal data from the in-home interviews of the National Adolescent Health Survey Wave 1 to examine neighborhood characteristics, adolescent females' perceptions of their neighborhood, attitudes towards STDs, HIV, and pregnancy, and parent perceptions of the neighborhood. The results show significant between group mean differences for adolescents' females' living in neighborhoods with high poverty rates for their perceptions toward chances of contracting an STD. In addition, adolescent females living in neighborhoods with high rates of unemployment and high proportions of young children yielded higher perceptions of risk of AIDS without protection. Adolescent females' perceptions of safety in their neighborhood predicted perceptions of risk towards pregnancy; however, neighborhood perceptions did not significantly predict any other perceptions of risk. Neighborhood perceptions did not mediate the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and perceptions of risk for STDs, HIV⁄AIDS, or pregnancy. Lastly, favorable perceptions about pregnancy as a life event were predicted by high proportions of young children in the neighborhood, with less favorable perceptions predicted by low unemployment and perceptions the neighborhood as a safe place.
Download or read book Consensus Meeting on HIV AIDS Incidence and Prevalence in California written by Matthew Facer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cumulated Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book HIV Prevalence Risk Behaviors and Attempted Suicide in a Hidden Population written by Kristen Diane Clements-Nolle and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EveryBody written by Deborah Schoeberlein and published by R A D Educational Programs. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EveryBody is a curriculum that emphasizes prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among early adolescents. It fosters active learning and facilitates communication about HIV/STD prevention and promotes safer behaviors. EveryBody incorporates current research on adolescent development so it can meet students where they are. Its abstinence-based approach promotes risk elimination as the safest way to prevent HIV/STD infections, endorsing risk reduction as an important component of HIV/STD prevention strategies. Lessons and activities promote development, internalization, and use of prevention-related skills and knowledge, commitment to lifelong health, self-efficacy, hope for the future, and courage. EveryBody aims to prevent interconnected high-risk behaviors and encourage interconnected protective behaviors. The curriculum addresses relevant psychosocial issues such as the experience of fear and anger in the context of HIV/STD prevention. It examines anger as an uncomfortable emotion and guides students to see that such emotions do not necessitate self-destructive risk taking. Six chapters include: (1) "Developmental Issues"; (2) "Teaching EveryBody"; (3) "Recommended Sequences for EveryBody Activities"; (4) "Information about HIV and AIDS"; (5) "Information on STDs"; and (6) "Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs." Twenty-four activities are included. (SM)
Download or read book Outreach Risk Reduction Strategies for Changing HIV Related Risk Behaviors Among Injection Drug Users written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on data from 28 sites that contributed data on HIV-related risk behavior among 13,475 injection drug users and 1,637 sexual partners of IDUs who were followed for a period of 6 months. Results on: risk behavior assessments of IDUs, risk behavior assessments for sex partners of IDUs, and knowledge of AIDS among IDUs and sexual partners. 32 tables. Extensive references.
