With over 1.5 billion young people in the world who are between the ages of 10 and 25, ensuring the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents is essential for global health. Extensive variations exist in the prevalence of adolescent sexual and reproductive health behaviors and outcomes around the world. This chapter uses an ecological perspective to explore individual, social, and environmental-level risk and protective factors related to adolescent sexual and reproductive health behaviors and outcomes. Implications include strategies to promote sexual and reproductive health that address individual behaviors, as well as the social and environmental context in which adolescents live.
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BMJ Sex Reprod Health
December 2024
Community Sexual and Reproductive Health, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
BMJ Sex Reprod Health
December 2024
Research Department of Reproductive Health, University College London (UCL) EGA Institute for Women's Health, London, UK.
BMC Womens Health
January 2025
Department of Public Health, Khoy University of Medical Sciences, Khoy, Iran.
Background: Sexual self-care and quality of sexual life are critical factors in women's health. These factors can also influence women's fertility desire. This study aims to examine sexual self-care, quality of sexual life, and their relationship with fertility desire in women attending comprehensive health centers in Urmia.
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January 2025
Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira (IMIP), Recife, Brazil.
Contraception
January 2025
UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH) World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Objectives: We describe the development, delivery, and evaluation of a program to support junior professionals to publish their work in a scientific journal.
Study Design: Conference delegates with an accepted abstract at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), self-identifying as junior professionals and from a low- or middle-income country (LMIC) or working predominantly in LMIC settings, were eligible for the program. The program involved: (i) Four face-to-face workshops at ICFP from the 14 to 17 of November 2022; (ii) mentoring meetings at ICFP; (iii) a six-month post-conference online coaching program; and (iv) post-conference learning webinars from December 2022 to May 2023.
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