Loretta Sweet Jemmott, PhD, RN, FAAN, is one of the nation's foremost researchers in the field of HIV / AIDS, STD and pregnancy prevention, with a consistent track record of developing evidence -
based sexual risk - reduction interventions.
Not exact matches
Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination
based on
sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term
risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»
Being aware of the evidence
base should also encourage the Bishops of England and Wales and the CES that they can unambiguously promote the fundamental primacy of parents in the area of SRE without any
risk that they will compromise the
sexual health of young people.
Crucially it maintained the
basis for regarding as immoral any cooperation with condom use in the context of promiscuous
sexual activity even with the
risk of passing on of the HIV virus.
While still in the ICU, a very special team of doctors called Infectious Disease Specialist created a «
Risk Algorithm» for me and my infant daughter
based on my
sexual history.
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.
Based on what we know so far, we can draw provisional conclusions about particular types of childhood trauma that are linked to increased
risk for psychosis: bullying,
sexual abuse, and emotional neglect.
These men also don't want traditional surgery because it involves greater
risks, has possible
sexual side effects, and has a recovery time that is relatively long compared to PAE, which is generally performed under local anesthesia and on an outpatient
basis.»
Professor Weissberg has published about one hundred articles and chapters focusing on preventive interventions with children and adolescents, and has coauthored nine curriculums on school -
based programs to promote social competence and prevent problem behaviors including drug use, high -
risk sexual behaviors, and aggression.
When governing bodies are considering whether there is a
risk to the public, they must take into account the inherent likelihood that the only evidence of
sexual misconduct will often be a complainant's word against a registrant's; as a result, they must take great care not to assess the women's complaints of misconduct on the
basis of discriminatory myths and stereotypes.
Kirby D and Coyle K, School -
based programs to reduce
sexual risk - taking behavior, Children and Youth Services Review, 1997, 19 (5 — 6): 415 — 436.
Proponents have rebranded abstinence - only programs by co-opting public health and rights -
based language and calling them «
sexual risk avoidance» programs.
Program (PMP) is a community -
based family intervention designed to promote positive parenting and effective parent - child communication about sexuality and
sexual risk reduction.
Families Talking Together is an evidence -
based curriculum for parents that prevents adolescent
sexual risk behaviors.
Putting practice into research: Personality -
based typology of adolescent male
sexual offenders with implications for etiology,
risk prediction, and treatment.
The study also examines increased
risk for juvenile
sexual offending
based on the age at which the child experienced
sexual abuse.
Weissberg has authored more than 260 publications focusing on preventive interventions with children and adolescents and has developed curricula on school -
based programs to promote social competence and prevent problem behaviors including drug use, high -
risk sexual behaviors, and aggression.
Kirby, D. «School -
Based Programs to Reduce
Sexual Risk - Taking Behaviors: A review of effectiveness,» Public Health Reports, 190:339 - 60, 1997.
Kirby, D. «School -
Based Programs to Reduce
Sexual Risk - Taking Behaviors: Sexuality and HIV / AIDS Education, Health Clinics, and Condom Availability programs.»
(2) The 1997 Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance, a national school -
based survey conducted by the CDC confirms other national trend data on the
sexual behavior of American teens: rates of
sexual experience have stabilized and condom use has increased for teens in the 1990s.
We also work closely with area schools and other local and state agencies to deliver evidence -
based programs to promote healthy relationships and
sexual decision - making and reduce
risk for
sexual assualt, sexually transmitted infections - including HIV - and pregnancy among youth.
Project STRIVE is a 5 - session family -
based intervention intended to reduce
sexual risk behaviors, substance use and delinquency among youth ages 12 to 17 who have recently run away from home.
Counsellors, parents and carers, disability support workers and community services who are looking for training and support in evidence -
based practice ways of working with women who are at
risk or have experienced
sexual assault, violence or been victims of other crime or exploitation.
intervention reported significantly less
sexual risk behavior,
based on the risky sex scale at 3 - month follow - up (p <.01).
STRIVE (Support to Reunite, Involve and Value Each Other) is a 5 - session family -
based intervention intended to reduce
sexual risk behaviors, substance use and delinquency among youth who have recently run away from home.
STRIVE is a 5 - session family -
based intervention intended to reduce
sexual risk behaviors, substance use, and delinquency among youth who have recently run away from home.
Familias Unidas is a family - centered, evidence -
based substance use and
sexual risk behavior prevention intervention for Hispanic youth and their families.
The researchers» aim is to provide evidence that JPOs can effectively deliver an evidence -
based intervention as a means to ultimately decrease AOD use and other public health - related behaviors (i.e., criminal behaviors, HIV / STI
sexual risk behaviors) among these high -
risk adolescents.
Objective To examine the longitudinal associations between supportive relationships with friends and parents and
sexual risk behavior in adolescence
based on an ecological — transactional perspective.
Several studies have reported that early trauma, and especially childhood
sexual abuse, specifically increases the
risk of later hallucinations in both schizophrenia and bipolar patients.69 — 73 On the other hand, insecure attachment appears to be specifically associated with paranoia and not hallucinations.45, 46 Evidence that discrimination or victimization plays a specific role in the development of paranoid beliefs has emerged from a population survey in the United States and Mexico, 39 from a prospective population -
based study in Holland, 32 and from patients» retrospective reports of their experiences of intrusive74, 75 and threatening76 life events (as noted above, this effect may contribute to the elevated rates of psychosis in immigrant populations).