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Dec 28, 2020 · The World Health Organization (WHO) states that sexual health literacy provides the ability to understand sexual health information and application of that information, decreasing the risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and also providing various benefits beyond health .
- Zahra Rakhshaee, Raziyeh Maasoumi, Saharnaz Nedjat, Zohreh Khakbazan
- 2020
Oct 29, 2021 · To justify this result, it can be said that sexual health literacy, like sexual life quality, is a context-based variable; therefore, it can affect a variable of its kind. Besides, sexual health literacy is a set of skills, abilities, and capacities in various dimensions of sexual health.
- Noncommunicable Disease Health Literacy and The Sdgs
- High Impact of Pictorial Health Warnings
- Traffic Light Labelling
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Literacy and The Sdgs
- Potential Pathways to Improve Health Literacy
- Strengthening Participatory and Representative Decision-Making
- Sdgs Can Inform Government Action on Literacy
- Awareness of Health Impact of All Government Activities
- Moving Forward: A Plan For The Next Fifteen Years
- Making Use of New Technologies
In the 2014 Outcome Document of the high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the comprehensive review and assessment of the progress achieved in the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases6, governments committedto “continue to develop, strengthen and implement multisectoral public policies and action plans to promote...
Pictorial health warnings, especially on tobacco product packages, have emerged as a specific and cost-effective application of the basic function of health literacy. As compared with text-based warnings, large pictorial health warnings havebeen shown to have greater impacts in alerting consumers to the health harms (including severity and magnitud...
Pictorial warnings are being used for other health harming products, with similar cross-SDG benefits expected. For example, Ecuador has introduced traffic light labelling for foods, while New York City has implemented warning labels for restaurantfood with excess sodium. Traffic light labelling is nearly universally understood by consumers, bypassi...
Sexual and reproductive health information, especially when provided with complementary economic measures such as cash transfers, can support girls to delay sexual debut, choose ‘lower risk’ partners and better protect themselvesduring sex. This, in turn, can reduce their risk for HIV, HSV-2 and other STIs, while preventing unwanted pregnancies and...
There are several potential pathways through which improvements in sexual and reproductive health literacy can contribute to gender equality (SDG 5), for example by helping girls to stay in school, reducing gender gaps in education (SDG 4),and improving future economic opportunities (SDG 8). By advancing access to better jobs and by delaying pregna...
Strengthening participatory and representative decision-making about health literacy development and equity at all levels will promote individual and community action for health. While health literacy interventions are likely to be highlycontext specific, the process and impact of implementing them can enable decision makers from different governme...
There are multiple links between health literacy and the SDGs, providing several evidence-based action areas for government to take. The education sector, for example, can play an important role in promoting health literacy amongst schoolage children (Goal 4 and Goal 5) by integrating health into and across educational curriculum areas. The labour ...
Governments must also take steps to increase and sustain their own health literacy. Large-scale capital projects, for example, have been shown to increase health risks in surrounding communities, with the potential to widen economic inequities– rather than bring intended inclusive economic growth – if the benefits from these projects accrue only am...
The Agenda 2030 will require a new way of working, harnessing the considerable synergies across goals. Moreover, taking into account the ambition and broad scope of Agenda 2030, progress will only be achieved through a new global partnershipbringingtogether a range of stakeholders, as envisioned in Goal 17. Underpinning these roles are some critica...
Also key will be harnessing SDG 9, which includes a target on providing access to information and technology including the internet. The rapid expansion in access to new communications technology and use of social media offer new platformsfor health literacy efforts (e.g. through mobile for health or ‘M-Health’ technologies). These can complement t...
Apr 26, 2023 · Sexual health literacy was first coined by Irvine ( 2004 ), who explained sexual health and its impact on sexual behaviors. Health behaviors are defined as any activity undertaken for...
Sep 27, 2023 · In this review, sexual health literacy is identified as the means to incorporate these key components to inform SRH decision making, thus providing a platform to better understand the intersections between culture and sexual health literacy.
Oct 6, 2021 · Health literacy is significant when it comes to sexual health. When people have access to important sexual health information that is easy to understand, they can make well-informed decisions for themselves in their sexual practices.
Jan 3, 2023 · Sexual health literacy (SHL) is a set of knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, incentives, and personal abilities in the access, perception, assessment, and utilization of sexual health information in one’s daily life, which enables and empowers a person to judge and decide to create change in one’s sexual life [ 1 ].
