I would like information about 'good practice' developments in the sexual health of older women.

INTRODUCTION Although approximately 40% of women report female sexual problems--and particularly sexual desire disorders, there are numerous practical, professional, and personal barriers to their diagnosis and management by treating clinicians. AIM To identify practice patterns, perceptions, and barriers to the diagnosis and management of female sexual problems among U.S. practicing primary ...

Biological theories of sexual orientation, typically presented in human sexuality classes, are considered by many social psychologists to cause reductions in students’ sexual prejudice. Yet when biological theories were not presented to 36 psychology students in a ten-week seminar on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) psychology, both sexual prejudice and two forms of essentialist th...

BACKGROUND Primary care is an important provider of sexual health care in England. We sought to explore the extent of testing for chlamydia and HIV in general practice and its relation to associated measures of sexual health in two contrasting geographical settings. METHODS We analysed chlamydia and HIV testing data from 64 general practices and one genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic in Bren...

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 The aim of the current text is to present selected fragments “APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Sexual Minority Persons” together a commentary by Author.
 Method
 Author translated English “Guidelines” into Polish and carried out critical analysis their content in relation culture context.
 Results
 In light ethical principles psychologists, as well s...

BACKGROUND In recent years there has been interest in websites as a means of increasing access to free chlamydia tests through the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) in England. We aimed to describe and evaluate online access to chlamydia testing within the NCSP. METHODS We analysed NCSP chlamydia testing data (2006-2010) for 15-24 year olds from the 71/95 programme areas in Englan...

The available research evidence pertaining to anogenital injury in victims of sexual violence presents a very wide range of injury prevalence data. As such, it is extraordinarily challenging for health care practitioners involved in clinical forensic examination of victims of sexual violence to place their examination findings in to context. It is generally accepted that the broad range of exis...

It is essential that physicians who take care of adolescents, whether in specialty practice or primary care, learn to routinely address adolescent sexuality and reproductive health care. According to our most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 64.1% of 12th graders have had sexual intercourse ≥1 time, and 49.3% of 12th graders have had sexual intercourse with at least ≥1 person in the last 3 mo...

OBJECTIVES To examine the role of general practitioners (GPs) in HIV counselling and testing over a 22-year period. DESIGN A dynamic cohort study. SETTING General practices (N=42) participating in the Dutch Sentinel General Practice Network at Nivel with a nationally representative patient population by age, gender, regional distribution and population density. OUTCOME MEASURES HIV-relate...

BACKGROUND Community pharmacists, pharmaceutical industry and differences in prescribing between GPs. OBJECTIVE To explore the role of the pharmacists and pharmaceutical industry representatives. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was undertaken of 1434 GPs in The Netherlands in 2001. Prescribing indicators based on general practice guidelines were used to assess the quality of prescribing. T...