Sentences with phrase «sexual health behaviour»

5th December 2012 — The Sexual Health & Crisis Pregnancy Programme, in conjunction with the Irish Research Council, is very pleased to have awarded Dr. Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, Health Promotion Unit, National University of Ireland, Galway, with a Government of Ireland Collaborative Research Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences award, to carry out Adolescent Sexual Health Behaviour in Ireland: Data, Dissemination and Development.

The Sexual Health & Crisis Pregnancy Programme, in conjunction with the Irish Research Council, is very pleased to have awarded Dr. Saoirse Nic Gabhainn, Health Promotion Unit, National University of Ireland, Galway, with a Government of Ireland Collaborative Research Projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences award, to carry out Adolescent Sexual Health Behaviour in Ireland: Data, Dissemination and Development.

This project sets out to systematically analyse sexual health behaviour data collected in the 2010 Irish Health Behaviours in School - aged Children (HBSC) study, which represents the first nationally representative and internationally comparable adolescent data in Ireland.

She has held a Canada Research Chair in Adolescents» Sexual Health Behaviour (2006 - 2016) and has received a wide range of funding from federal agencies (e.g., NIH, CIHR) and private foundations (e.g., Ford, NBHRF) to support her work.

She is the Canada Research Chair in Adolescents» Sexual Health Behaviour and has a long history of international collaborations on issues relevant to youth sexual and reproductive health.

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The Sexual Health Strategy allowed further growth towards the equivalence of heterosexual and homosexual behaviour.

Others complain education policies fail to adequately equip young people to promote their own sexual good health and some campaigners argue Britain needs to foster a more open attitude towards sex to encourage safe sexual behaviour.

Using scientific evidence as the basis for public guidelines is similar to existing public health initiatives for low - risk drinking, or safer sexual behaviours to avoid infection or unwanted pregnancy.

Gert Jensen (National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark), «The sexual behaviour of bacteria»;

Binge drinking is a major public health issue because it is an important risk factor for alcohol - related injuries, accidental death, unsafe sexual behaviour, and long - term substance abuse problems.

Dr Neha Issar - Brown, Programme Leader for the Population and Systems Medicine Board at the Medical Research Council, said: «Sexual behaviour, or rather risky sexual behaviour, can have a negative impact on several other areas of a young adult's life, including their general well - being and hSexual behaviour, or rather risky sexual behaviour, can have a negative impact on several other areas of a young adult's life, including their general well - being and hsexual behaviour, can have a negative impact on several other areas of a young adult's life, including their general well - being and health.

Others groups simply need to monitor their health carefully during their visit, use insect repellant and avoid risky sexual behaviour.

Engage in numerous additional initiatives to create public education and awareness to challenge current attitudes and behaviours; update health and physical education curriculum for students; develop tools and best practices to support compassionate response from law enforcement authorities; strengthen supports provided by hospitals; create a pilot program to provide free independent legal advice to sexual assault survivors whose cases are proceeding toward a criminal trial, and many other broad - based initiatives.

In particular, it is for the domestic court to verify whether an individual questionnaire — focusing on each donor's sexual behaviour by looking at the «period which has elapsed since (his) most recent sexual relations -LRB-...), the stability of the relationship of the person concerned, or whether sexual relations were protected» (para. 66)-- can allow health practitioners to asses whether the individual is exposed to a high risk of HIV infection.

Employers have a statutory obligation to take care of the safety and health of their employees while at work by taking the necessary measures in order to protect them against sexual harassment and unwanted behaviour.

The current study involved in - depth qualitative file audit of 299 non-heterosexual counselling clients who attended drummond street (within a 3 year period from 2008 - 2011), with 220 risk and protective factors identified relating to the individual (cognitive and coping styles, physical health and health risk behaviours), family of origin, couple relationship and parenting, stressful life events, school and work factors, social connection to mainstream and queer communities, and queer - specific factors (such as exposure to homophobia and being currently in a «questioning» stage regarding sexual identity formation).

Exposure to physical and sexual violence and adverse health behaviours in African children: results from the Global School - based Student Health health behaviours in African children: results from the Global School - based Student Health Health Survey

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

Long - term effects of childhood sexual violence include substance misuse, early sexual debut, more sexual partners, trading sex for financial gain and less use of contraception, as well as interpersonal difficulties, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal behaviour.44 — 51 Our results imply that interventions to reduce peer - related violence among primary school children could be beneficial for mental health, as well as for sexual and reproductive health in this population.

A brief intervention for drug use, sexual risk behaviours and violence prevention with vulnerable women in South Africa: a randomised trial of the Women's Health CoOp

Victims of abuse are at high risk for poor health, related not only to the physical trauma they have endured, but also to high rates of other social risk factors associated with poor health.22 Abused children have high rates of growth problems, untreated vision and dental problems, infectious diseases, developmental delay, mental health and behavioural problems, early and risky sexual behaviours, and other chronic illnesses, but child welfare and health care systems historically have not addressed the health needs of dependent children.23 - 33 Compared to children in foster care, maltreated children who remain at home exhibit similarly high rates of physical, developmental and mental health needs.34

The research shows that foster care can lead to benefits across a range of domains including antisocial behaviour, 21 sexual activity, 22 school attendance and academic achievement, 23 social behaviour and quality of life24 compared with children who remain at home or who reunify following foster care, and that enhanced foster care can produce even better outcomes in terms of fewer mental and physical health problems.25

Victims have been shown to experience more post-traumatic stress and dissociation symptoms than non-abused children, 8 as well as more depression and conduct problems.9 They engage more often in at - risk sexual behaviours.10 Victims are also more prone to abusing substances, 11 and to suicide attempts.12 These mental health problems are likely to continue into adulthood.13 CSA victims are also more at risk than non-CSA youth to experience violence in their early romantic relationships; 14 women exposed to CSA have a two to three-fold risk of being sexually revictimized in adulthood compared with women without a history of CSA exposure.15

All respondents who met the criteria for any mental health disorder and a probability sample of other respondents then completed the second part of the survey which collected information on the occurrence of childhood adversities occurring within the family (eg, physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, parental death, parental divorce, other parental loss, parental mental disorder, parental substance use, parental criminal behaviour, family violence and...

Researchers looked at various Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE's include (a) psychological abuse, (b) physical abuse, (c) sexual abuse, (d) substance abuse by a household family member, (e) mental illness of a household family member, (f) spousal or partner violence, and (g) criminal behaviour resulting in the incarceration of a household member) and how they are related to adulthood health risk behaviours and disease outcome.

Exposure to physical and sexual violence and adverse health behaviours in African children: results from the Global School - based Student Healthhealth behaviours in African children: results from the Global School - based Student HealthHealth Study

It is a period of biological, cognitive and social change of such magnitude and rapidity that it is no surprise to find that it is associated with the onset or exacerbation of a number of health - related problems including depression (1), eating disorders (2), substance abuse and dependence (3 — 5), risky sexual behaviour (6), antisocial and delinquent activity (7) and school dropout (8).