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Determinants of risky sexual behaviour by South African construction workers
Published in Patrick Manu, Fidelis Emuze, Tarcisio Abreu Saurin, Bonaventura H. W. Hadikusumo, Construction Health and Safety in Developing Countries, 2019
Paul A. Bowen, Peter J. Edwards
UNAIDS (2013) reports that the correct and consistent use of condoms reduces the risk of sexually transmitted infection (STI)/HIV transmission by over 90%. Shisana and colleagues (2014) noted that, overall, use of condoms at last sexual intercourse occasion increased significantly between 2002 and 2008, but then significantly decreased in 2012 across all age groups and for both genders except among females aged 50 years and older. They found that approximately 1 quarter of all sexually active respondents of 15 years and older had consistently used a condom in the preceding 12 months with their most recent sexual partner, but that just over half of the survey respondents had not used a condom over the same period.
Parental education and hospitalisations among Pacific children: A cross-sectional study using linked administrative data in New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure
Published in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2023
Jesse Kokaua, Troy Ruhe, Nicholas Bowden, Reremoana Theodore, Seini Jensen, Wilmason Jensen, Debra Sorenson, Rosalina Richards
This paper investigates the influence of highest parental educational level on Pacific and NMNP children hospitalised in Aotearoa New Zealand. Three outcomes were indicated as binary variables, indicating that a child was hospitalised, first in any hospital (any Hospitalisations), secondly in private hospitals, and thirdly, with a potentially avoidable hospitalisation. Total Hospitalisations refer to any hospital event in publicly-funded or private hospitals. Publicly-funded and private hospitalisation data were taken from the NMDS. Public hospitalisations refer to all publicly funded health care events, including publicly funded health care events in private health care centres. Private hospitalisation data includes health events that include, but are not limited to, insurance-funded, self-funded and accredited employer-funded events (Statistics New Zealand 2021c). Potentially avoidable hospitalisation (PAH), for those in any hospital, were identified with any of the following International Classification of Diseases – 10th edition, Australian Modification (ICD-10AM) diagnoses: Respiratory; Dental; Gastrointestinal; Nutritional deficiency and anaemia; Cardiovascular; Otitis Media; Dermatological; Diabetes; Kidney and urinary tract; Sexually Transmitted Infection; Vaccine preventable; Meningoccocal infections; Epilepsy; Other Non-Injury; or Unintentional Injuries (Ministry of Health 2020a; see Supplementary Table A for the full list of ICD-10AM diagnoses for PAH).
Women in food insecure, rural Appalachian households participate in risky sexual behaviors: a pilot study
Published in Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, 2020
Sumali S. Hewage, Hannah R. Griswold, Alexander V. Sergeev, Jody M. Gerome, Angela Hamilton, David H. Holben
As shown in Table 1, less than 10% of participants were HPV-positive. However, 30 (19.7%) participants reported that they were informed by their doctor for having a sexually transmitted infection (trichomonas vaginal infections, venereal warts, condylomas, HPV, chlamydia, and/or genital herpes). Only 38 (25.0%) participants mentioned receiving vaccination for HPV. Fifty (32.9%) participants reported having had abnormal Pap-test results in the past. According to the self-reported data (Table 1), more participants [61 (44.2%)] were in the high-risk sexual behavior category than in low- or medium-risk categories, according to CARE Risky Sexual Behavior Index.19
Applying Bioaffordances through an Inquiry-Based Model: A Literature Review of Interactive Biodesign
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2021
Phillip Gough, Soojeong Yoo, Martin Tomitsch, Naseem Ahmadpour
In this section, we discuss Strawberry, a concept for a sexually transmitted infection (STI) rapid test kit that was created in an interdisciplinary, senior-level class at The University of Sydney. The studio was offered to students studying design computing, life sciences, biomedical engineering or medical science, from which a group of five students from design and medical science developed the concept. The students worked in a studio class, based around a problem-based learning activity (Smith et al., 2005) that addresses challenges for health and medicine.