Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health articles from November 2004

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health archives from November 2004

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November 1, 2004... A nation can invest in its youth in many ways, including through investments in education, in community programs and in health services. Some approaches are more enduring than others, most notably among them, ones that provide the information...

Sexual victimization among a national probability sample of adolescent women.(Author Abstract)
November 1, 2004... Forced sexual intercourse is a considerable public health problem among young adolescent women in the United States. (1) Although much of our understanding about the prevalence of forced sex comes from studies of older adolescents and young...

Infrequency of sexually transmitted disease screening among sexually experienced U.S. female adolescents.
November 1, 2004... The prevalence of chlamydia infection-which is associated with considerable personal, societal and economic costs--is high among adolescents in the United States. (1) By 18 years of age, 4% of all adolescents are infected with Chlamydia...

Implications of racial and gender differences in patterns of adolescent risk behavior for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
November 1, 2004... HIV was the seventh-leading cause of death among U.S. 15-24-year-olds in 2002, and at least half of all newly infected persons in the country are younger than 25. (1) This represents about 20,000 new HIV infections among youth annually. (2) In...

Ambivalence and pregnancy: adolescents' attitudes, contraceptive use and pregnancy.
November 1, 2004... The majority of pregnancies among unmarried teenagers are unintended. (1) Most adolescents do not want to become pregnant, although some are not opposed to becoming pregnant and others have ambivalent attitudes. (2) A number of explanations of...

Perceived risk of chlamydial and gonococcal infection among sexually experienced young adults in the United States.
November 1, 2004... Chlamydia trachomatis causes the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States. (1) Five percent of U.S. women aged 18 26 and 4% of men that age have chlamydia; prevalences are elevated among black women (14%),...

Contraceptive use and consistency in U.S. teenagers' most recent sexual relationships.
November 1, 2004... Although the proportion of U.S. teenagers who have ever had sexual intercourse has declined in the past decade, almost half of high school-age teenagers in 2003 were sexually experienced. (1) In addition, despite recent dramatic declines, (2)...

Social and behavioral determinants of self-reported STD among adolescents.
November 1, 2004... Adolescents have among the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The Centers lot Disease Control and Prevention surveillance data indicate that in 1996, there were more than three million STD cases among U.S. teenagers, and...

California adolescents' use of family planning services.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... In "A Comparison of Hispanic and White Adolescent Females' Use of Family Planning Services in California" [2004, 36(4):157-161], M. Rosa Solorio and colleagues conduct a secondary analysis based on the 2001 California Health Interview Survey...