Promoting Young Peoples Sexual Health
Across the world, heated debates arise as to the most suitable means of addressing the sexual health of young people. On one side are those who believe that keeping quiet about the issues will prevent experimentation and early sexual activity. On the other side are those who argue that young people have entitlements to information and services and that these are associated with safer outcomes.
Promoting Young Peoples Sexual Health reveals the complexity of the issues involved in this debate and demonstrates that there are no simple answers. Drawing on a wide range of literature and covering a wide range of areas, the book discusses:
how young peoples sexual activities are affected by the wider contexts in which they live;
the practical and ideological barriers that constrain and inhibit the improvement of young peoples sexual health at educational and service levels;
some examples of innovative efforts to overcome some of these barriers;
possible ways forward in terms of policy and legislative changes;
how those in positions of authority to make policy and programmatic decisions need to accept their responsibilities more fully.
This book will appeal to students of sociology, anthropology, psychology, community and public health, as well as health and social care professionals. It is also essential reading for workers in the field of sexual health and HIV.
Roger Ingham is Director of the Centre for Sexual Health Research at the University of Southampton, UK, and an advisor to the UK Governments Teenage Pregnancy Unit.
Peter Aggleton is Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
Sexuality, Culture and Health series
Edited by Peter Aggleton, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Richard Parker, Columbia University, New York, USA
Sonia Correa, ABIA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gary Dowsett, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Shirley Lindenbaum, City University of New York, USA
This new series of books offers cutting-edge analysis, current theoretical perspectives and up-to-the-minute ideas concerning the interface between sexuality, public health, human rights, culture and social development. It adopts a global and interdisciplinary perspective in which the needs of poorer countries are given equal status to those of richer nations. The books are written with a broad range of readers in mind, and will be invaluable to students, academics and those working in policy and practice. The series also aims to serve as a spur to practical action in an increasingly globalised world.
Also available in the series:
Dying to be Men
Youth, masculinity and social exclusion
Gary T. Barker
Sex, Drugs and Young People
International perspectives
Edited by Peter Aggleton, Andrew Ball and Purnima Mane
Promoting Young Peoples Sexual Health
International perspectives
Edited by Roger Ingham and Peter Aggleton
First published 2006
by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Promoting young peoples sexual health : international perspectives / edited by Roger Ingham and Peter Aggleton.
p.; cm. (Sexuality, culture and health)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0415374820 (hardback) ISBN 0415374839 (pbk.)
1. Health behavior in adolescence. 2. YouthSexual behavior. 3. Hygiene, Sexual. I. Ingham, Roger, 1945- II. Aggleton, Peter. III. Series: Sexuality, culture and health series. [DNLM: 1. Sexual Behaviorpsychology. 2. Adolescent Behavior. 3. Adolescent. 4. Health Policy. 5. Sex Education.WS 462 P9655 2006]
RJ47.53.P76 2006
613.0433dc22
2006010347
ISBN10: 0415374820 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0415374839 (pbk)
ISBN13: 9780-415374828 (hbk)
ISBN13: 9780-415374835 (pbk)
Contents
6 Young peoples same-sex relationships, sexual health and well-being
Illustrations
Tables
Figures
Contributors
Peter Aggleton is Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London. The author and editor of over twenty books in the field of health promotion, he has acted as a senior advisor and consultant to UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO and a wide range of other international agencies.
Mohamed M. Ali is a statistician in the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at WHO, conducting clinical trials and household surveys in reproductive health. Before joining WHO, he worked for several years at the Centre for Population Studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His current research interests include contraceptive use dynamics, mortality estimates and the application of multi-level modelling in health research.
Gary Barker is Executive Director of Instituto Promundo, a non-governmental organisation based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that works to promote gender equality and health among young people and equitable community development. His doctorate is in child and adolescent development, and he has coordinated research and program development in gender socialisation and sexual and reproductive health in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and North America.
Paul Boyce is an ESRC post-doctoral research fellow at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. His research interests include male-to-male sexuality in India, gender theory, anthropology and international HIV/AIDS policy.
Joanna Busza is a lecturer in sexual and reproductive health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on the design and evaluation of community-based health interventions. Joanna also works with non-governmental organisations in developing countries to develop appropriate monitoring and evaluation strategies for sexual and reproductive health projects with vulnerable populations.
Elaine Chase is a research officer at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. Her work, both in the UK and internationally, focuses on the health and wellbeing of children and young people, in particular those who are marginalised and disadvantaged.
