Essays on Safe Sex

Family Health Wellness Behaviors

During this interview process, it became apparent that a once healthy vibrant energy has become dim and saddened by life's circumstances. When we take the eleven health patterns that were assessed during this interview process we can evaluate that most of the answers needed intervention. Many areas were lacking a holistic heath approach to her lifestyle. The interviewee shall be recognized as T.M. within the writings of this paper

The Health Perception

There is a decreased sense of health status as well as the value of heath promotion. Smoking, weight gain, unhealthy eating habits and lack of motivation are key factors to ...

Of the many medical ailments we are meant to watch out for today, the Zika Virus is the newest on our radar. It is dangerous to individuals and unborn babies, and is overrun in many regions of the world. People are at risk because they often do not know the signs, or even how the virus is transmitted. They are also unaware of how to get tested for the virus, this leaving them at risk to transmit the virus to others. It has allowed the virus to become a serious issue in many places around the work. The population ...

A number of office approaches can be used to seeing an adolescent in the office. It is, therefore, important for the physician to adopt a technique that the teenager feels they are best comfortable with. Confidentiality forms the foundation of any therapeutic relationship with an adolescent. Without proper clarification of the confidentiality limits, the physician may end up getting incomplete or incorrect information during the history taking process (Batanova & Loukas, 2012). My preferred approach when dealing with an adolescent is seeing the teenager alone first and later asking the parents to join the conversation. However, before the day of ...

Introduction

Human sexuality is a vital part of existence, carrying the reproductive function but also the interaction and the need for intimacy and love. The mere existence of human species is due to sexuality, which is one of the basic needs for living. From the most ancient times, or from the biblical beginning of Adam and Eve, sexuality is entrenched in human behavior as a necessary condition for spreading the human species, but also as a capacity for sharing loving feelings towards another human being. Although the effects of sexuality are visible in the public spheres through relationships and/or children ...

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has remained to be an unfinished agenda in the world today as halfway through the intended period when they were to be achieved not so much has been gained. In Thailand, the people are still battling HIV and Aids, and it remains to be a pandemic that is yet to be contained. Studies indicate that of the total population of 60 million people in Thailand, around 440, 000 were living with HIV and Aids by the year 2013 (Fordham, 2015). Further, about 18,000 people had succumbed to the disease in that year ...

Something unusual or extraordinary that you have done (personal story)

Perhaps the most significant accomplishment any person can achieve in this world is the ability to empathize with those who suffer and in turn, scrape up enough energy to care and do something to make a change. How can anybody offer needed and necessary help without understanding the nature and degree of problems through which another person suffers? At a personal level, I was always sympathizing with cancer patients and donating money towards one research or another. However, I later realized that was not enough. One Saturday afternoon, my high school held a donation drive for the terminally ill ...

The rate of teenage pregnancy cases have increased rapidly in the past few years not only in this locality but also throughout the whole country. According to the Martin, Hamilton, and Sutton (2009) report, about one million girls at teenage become pregnant at the end of each year. The report continues to indicate that about 40% of the young women become pregnant before they attain 20 years. The situation is not different in the Riley locality where the rate is even higher compared to the national teen pregnancy rate. This can be attributed to many factors such peer pressure, ...

Prevention of early, unplanned pregnancy, abortions, as well as sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents is a main concern in the United States and Europe. School-based sexuality health education offers an obvious approach though evaluations of the success of such interventions, both in high and low-income countries have not been quite encouraging (Magoon 28). Most of the studies to date have depended on self-reported behavioral outcomes like pregnancy and abortion. Self-reported sexuality behavior is disreputably prone to reporting inaccuracies, and there is considerable prospective for biased misreporting after an intervention that aims to change actions. Regardless of the relatively ...

With approximately 50% of adolescents sexually active by the time they are in Year 10, what skills and knowledge do they need to have to make, good decisions about their personal health? Discuss. Introduction “The development of a positive, healthy and responsible sexuality requires information, education and improved access to services. Increasing the available options enables young women and young men to exercise informed, self determined decisions”. (Youth Health Council – South Australia) There has been a drastic change in our life styles, family structures and social system in the last two decades; today’s youth is much more ...

Abortion is defined as the act of clinically or surgically terminating pregnancy. A clinical abortion involves the use of medication to get rid of a pregnancy while a surgical abortion is carried out in the operating room whereby surgical equipments are used. There are many concerns on whether abortion should be permitted. Some people equate abortion to murder while others are neutral. This has resulted in two schools of thought; pro-choice and pro-life. Pro-choice are those who believe the woman should make a choice. On the contrary, pro-life are who believe abortion to murder. Therefore, it should not be legalized. Consequently, abortion ...

Introduction

Matters of sexuality and fertility especially during rehabilitation for the past thirty years have remained controversial because not so many people want to talk about them (Phelps et al., 2001). Persons with spinal cord injuries are in need of answers on how to handle their sexuality. These questions cannot be ignored. Most of them ask questions about their attractiveness, ability to have kids and relationships. To make the matters worse, studies on sexuality among people with spinal cord injuries are scarce (Karellou, 2003). On a positive note, advances in this sector have provided ways through which such people can ...

The issue on teenage pregnancy is one of the most common issues involving the youth at the present time. In recent years, there is a high increase in teenage pregnancy cases around the globe, despite the efforts done by the government to stop its continuous onset. Adults – especially parents- are becoming weary over the increasing rate of teenagers becoming pregnant as it also results to the increase in abortion rates, school drop outs and even economic turmoil. Many studies have been conducted in the past to determine as to what triggers teenage pregnancy and it has varied immensely every year. ...

AIDS

Research carried out has provided an enormous amount of information available for both patient and clinicians on HIV and AIDS. Mechanisms to prevent the transmission of the disease have been outline. However, the methods of preventing its transmission will differ as per the background of the individual. A few nations are even now falling behind in education and thus their strategy for keeping the transmission of the illness will be unique in relation to that of the developed nations, for example, the United States. United States is a developed country, and much of its populace is very much educated. Therefore, ...

[Subject/Course] [Submission Date] Sex education is currently a hot topic in the United States of America. This controversial debate is centered on the issue that who should educate pupils about sex-related topics. These topics include relationships, sexual intercourse, contraceptive methods, sexually transmissible diseases (such as AIDS), pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity. As far as my opinion is concerned, I believe that sex education must be left up to the parents or adult siblings and schools or teachers should not have the responsibility of providing information to students concerning the sex-related issues. In my opinion, school is a ...

Discussion on AIDS

Introduction AIDS is a disease that is caused by a virus called HIV. The virus lowers the body’s immune system, thus making it susceptible to opportunistic diseases. In essence, the disease has no cure. However, if Aids is diagnosed in its early stages, it can be dealt with, and one can live for an extended period (Aretha, pg. 90).

Immediately the virus enters the body; it alters the body immune system. The following symptoms are experienced; Coughing and breathing difficulties, Fever, Persistent headache and stiff neck, Loss of vision, Weight loss and extreme fatigue which may result as the ...

Among other Ares of expertise that Eric Marlowe is certified at, he is considered as one of the top leading sexuality counsellor, trainer, author, international consultant, mentor, and teacher in a number of fields related to sexology (eDrug). Through programs such as sexual education to students seeking higher education, Marlowe can connect with students concerning sex issues. For almost twenty years, he has been able to promote healthy relationships amongst people of all ages. Some of the people and institutions that he deals with include: hospitals, sexual clinics, individual couples colleges, athletic teams, departments offering health services, the nations armed ...

Each year the number of adolescent girls who get pregnant and decide to keep the child gets lower, however the issue of the teenage pregnancy still keeps on holding a prominent place in the list of social and medical problems of the developing countries. Adolescent mothers face a wide variety of problems and insecurities that promise to have a major impact both on their lives and the lives of their children. Most of the girls are forced to drop their education, and the necessity to bring up a child and to support their own living without any help from their families or the ...

Helen Epstein’s “Aids, INC.” was a different take on the virus which was affecting different areas of Uganda. She looked at the virus through the eyes of teenagers and adolescents who engaged in sexual activity. In her research, she kept referring to something called “Lifestyle Brand”. This is the term used for advertising products which would capture the attention of people who shared a certain style or image. It is something like talking to a set of people that one would define as a target market. However, the basis of grouping these individuals would be because of style. It is sort of ...

Ethical values and morals have been awarded with a prestige in every society of the world. These set of rules have significant importance since without morals and ethics, human beings cannot dignify themselves from other creatures and do not guaranty success and respect; both in this world and after world. The dawn of modernization had not only brought changes in terms of technology and communication; social values, ethics and norms have been equally affected with its powerful impacts. Some well-known phenomena such as modernity, individualism, feminism and liberalism have been highlighted which brought a wave of sexual emancipation in the society. ...

Introduction

Teen pregnancy has become a widespread topic for discussion in US. As per statistics, about 34% teenagers become pregnant before reaching 20 with 79% of them being unmarried. 80% teenagers are reported to have their pregnancies unintended. The US blows about $7 billion dollars after teen pregnancy. Hardly one third of the teenage mothers finishes high school and collects their diplomas, with 80% of them ending on welfare. The likelihood of the daughters of the teen mothers becoming pregnant is 22% higher than others and the sons of teen mothers winding up in prison is 13% more likely than their ...

A major public health issue in the U.S. and globally is the continuing prevalence of HIV and AIDS. Disease incidence is highest among men who have sexual relations with other men, referred to as MSM or gay and bisexual men, although they compose just 2% of the country’s total population (HIV, 2012). In 2010, 61% of all persons newly infected with HIV or roughly 28,200 cases and 51% of all persons diagnosed with AIDS were MSM (HIV, 2012). Further, the incidence of HIV among MSM has risen alarmingly by 22% between 2008 and 2010 with most cases ...

There are many issues that young people have to deal with as they grow up; as puberty besets them, they become curious about sex and often engage in it. However, with the act of sex comes the possibility of pregnancy; as children have sex younger and younger, the chance for an unwanted pregnancy increases for a teenage girl, or a teenage boy who fathers a child. The problems of premarital sex include the disruption of finances and plans for the future; however, an abstinence-only education such as those conducted in many schools around the country is not working. The solution, then, must ...

Abstract

Unprotected sex among older adults is giving rise to more incidents of sexually transmitted disease in people between the ages of forty-five to seventy. There will always be a reaction to every action, and having sex without protection is the cause of this increase of sexually transmitted disease among older adults. Protecting oneself from sexually transmitted disease requires the practice of safe sex. Safe sex should be worn as an amour against STDs.

Increased Incidence of STD in Older Adults

More often than not the word sexually transmitted disease is associated with teenagers or young adults. Unfortunately, more and more this phrase is beginning to include older ...

Sex education in schools may be an uncomfortable subject to talk about, but it is very good and will helpful in the quest to educate young people and tell them what they need to be told. There are several options that are available through which this should be done and for this reason (Weill 63). All of them need to be brought on board because in one way or another they complement each other. Safe sex, abstinence and use of contraceptives should be taught hand in hand s that the youth are given options from which they can choose ...

Debate continues in the circles of education levels regarding the appropriateness of sex education in education systems in the world. The big question that is raised in all these is the credibility of abstinence in sex education. In regard to sex education, it is of importance to acknowledge the fact that using the abstinence approach is one of the appropriate ways of addressing all the issues that point to the subject (Levesque 21). This is so because abstinence has been considered as the only option that sees to it that there is no other alternative offered in regard to ...

Whenever the topic of abortion is raised in various channels, many would immediately call for anti-abortion due to its immoral and unethical background. Many religions have also denounced abortion as it claims innocent lives. Christianity is one of the staunchest rivals for those who believe abortion can be accepted as the heads of the religion believe that a fetus already has a life and killing it would be against the laws given by God. Nowadays, this argument is further escalated when proposals for legalizing abortion has gone underway. In the United States alone, abortion is legalized in some states and even ...

Introduction

Health has become a major concern for women. Aside from degrading their quality of life, health issues and weaknesses also contribute to society’s perception of them, which in turn shape their perception of themselves.

Although modern society strives to achieve a sense of equality between the sexes and EVEN as more research is being conducted in efforts to understand and address women’s health issues, it is evident that a lot of prejudice and discrimination still exist around this aspect of women’s lives.

Orientations Toward Health and Illness by Gustafson

Gustafson (272) explains two orientations for getting a better understanding of girls’ and women’s health. These are ...

Abstract

The problem of teenage pregnancy today is quite disturbing as many young couples who are still in their peak of growth engage in premarital sex and accidentally have a child. Many reports shown on newspapers and programs today discuss couples who abandon their child after giving birth, abort the premature fetus to save hospital money and couples who mistreat their child as he grows up. Officials and pro-family activists are starting to get concerned over the continuously growing numbers of teenage families and the other cases which are not reported. There are many reasons why they do not report it ...

INTRODUCTION

The issue of teenage sex is a very controversial one – today’s media culture increasingly fetishizes youth, to the point where sex symbols and fashion models appear younger and younger every year. Young people are learning more and more about sex earlier in life, and thus are engaging in it at younger ages. This, of course, has given rise to teenage pregnancies and STDs, as they are becoming more commonplace and less of a controversy than in previous generations, and thus less readily avoided. Despite the glorification of teen pregnancy in shows like Maury Povich and films like Juno, having an ...