Adolescent Sexual Health Interventions: Innovation, Efficacy, Cost, and the Urgent Need to Scale

The need to pay attention to differences in health literacy and knowledge in health education interventions

The Health Literacy (HL) is an individual and social capacity for access, understanding, evaluation of information and health services, and optimal utilization of it for health promotion [1]. Today, HL has been recognized as an important and vital indicator of the results and costs of health care the need for the effective health care system, has a good level of health literacy [2]. According t...

ADOLESCENT SEXUAL HEALTH Adolescent sexual health in Sweden

In Sweden, society’s attitudes towards teenage sexual relationships are liberal, and sexual and reproductive health issues are given high priority. Family and sex education has been taught in schools since the 1950s. The age of sexual consent is 15 years. Since 1975, abortion has been free on demand. Contraceptive counselling is free, easily available at family planning and youth health clinics...

Smoke signals: urgent need for more successful interventions.

Adolescent sexual health.

Objectives: To assess differences in provider willingness to screen all sexually active male and female adolescents for chlamydia and to determine whether concerns about cost effectiveness of screening are related to provider willingness to screen for chlamydia. Methods: All primary care providers in a managed care organisation self administered a survey about screening all sexually active adol...

Adolescent Sexual Health

Objectives: To assess differences in provider willingness to screen all sexually active male and female adolescents for chlamydia and to determine whether concerns about cost effectiveness of screening are related to provider willingness to screen for chlamydia. Methods: All primary care providers in a managed care organisation self administered a survey about screening all sexually active adol...