Youth, sexuality, gender, and health: dealing with a social phenomenon.

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_8F581489D0FB
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Sous-type
Editorial
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Youth, sexuality, gender, and health: dealing with a social phenomenon.
Périodique
International journal of public health
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Merten S., Mlotshwa L., Schwarz J.
ISSN
1661-8564 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1661-8556
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
05/2020
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
65
Numéro
4
Pages
375-376
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Editorial
Résumé
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) posits that every individual—including young people—has the right to make their own choices about their sexual and reproductive health (United Nations Population Fund 2020). A rapid fact-check looking at young people’s realities suggests that there is a considerable gap between global policies and local realities. Young people have to navigate their sexual and reproductive health at the conjuncture of individual and social, economic, cultural, and political realities. They necessarily balance intimacy and societal prescriptions, often in contexts of inequitable gender norms and gerontocracy (Van der Sijpt 2013). Their ability to start a healthy sexual and reproductive life is thus reliant on multiple factors beyond their control, embracing, besides individual capabilities, also social norms and structural conditions. In many societies, sexual norms are more restrictive for young unmarried women, and their access to sexual and reproductive health information and services may be restricted due to the stigma associated with these conditions (Heise et al. 2019)....
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
Création de la notice
04/06/2020 8:18
Dernière modification de la notice
16/07/2020 8:43
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