Sexual Health Promotion in General Practice

Sexual health in general practice: introductory skills.

Sexual health delivery in general practice.

Lactobacillus and thrush prevention A randomised controlled trial1 has dashed the hope that eating, or putting preparations of lactobacillus into the vagina, prevents thrush. The aim of the study published in the British Medical Journal was to test whether oral or vaginal lactobacillus could prevent postantibiotic vulvovaginitis. The study recruited women aged 18–50 years with nongynaecological...

Health Promotion in Practice

The increasing prevalence of chronic diseases has increased the global need for skilled health promotion professionals, and many professionals working in the field of health promotion lack some of the tools they need to apply in their practice. Health Promotion in Practice by Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin and Joan Arnold provides insight into the principles of health promotion and enables the reader t...

Sexual health in general practice: history and the partner history.

Current practice in health promotion.

Progress in health promotion and preventive programme planning is limited by a lack of data on the development of current activities. A cross sectional survey of hospitals, community health centres, and other health agencies in New South Wales was therefore undertaken to determine the nature and extent of health promotion programmes being conducted in the period July to December 1983. A subsamp...