Promoting Sexual Health

This presentation focuses on the importance of sexual health promotion in reducing teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases in the UK. It discusses the role of sexual health promotion in supporting healthy sexual activities and addresses the factors influencing sexual and reproductive health. The presentation also aims to suggest effective strategies and methods to promote sexual health among teenagers.

Promoting Sexual Health
(To understand the importance of sexual
health promotion in reducing teenage
pregnancies and sexually transmitted
diseases in UK)

INTRODUCTION
Sexual health promotion is important because it helps in building cultural understand
of health and illness that can be used if there is lack of sexual health education and
promotion.
It is also an important part of mental, physical, emotional and social well being in a
person's life. The overall dissertation is based on promoting sexual health so that
teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases are prevented in UK.
Policies and framework actions which are designed aims at supporting healthy sexual
activities so that negative outcomes of reproduction and sexual activities are not
increased.
There are many factors which influence sexual and reproductive health in individuals
such as income, employment, housing facilities, gender, people with specific needs
and education system.
A disproportion has been noticed in sexual and reproductive health all those people
who are disabled, bisexual, transgender and inter-sex individuals.
Lack of education and awareness are also some of the reasons which have
increased teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitter diseases in UK to a higher
extent.
Effective strategies and methods to promote sexual health in individuals will be
discussed in the dissertation.

Aims, Objectives and Research
question.
Aim:
To understand the importance of sexual health promotion in reducing
teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases in UK.
Objectives:
 To understand the concept of sexual health promotion.
 To determine the major role of sexual health promotion in reducing
teenage pregnancies in UK.
 To critically analyse the role of sexual health promotion in reducing
Sexually transmitted diseases in UK.
 To suggest different methods to promote sexual health among teenagers
in UK.

Cont...
Research Question
PICO framework will be used to designing the research question for the
ongoing study. It helps in formulating and answering the questions in desired
manner.
P: Patients (Teenage individuals)
I: Intervention (Sexual health promotion)
C: Comparison (None)
O: Outcome (Reduction in teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted
disease).
Why it is important to promote sexual health among teenagers in UK?

METHODOLOGY
Literature Search Strategy
To obtain overall credibility of the literature review, well defined literature
strategy has been used. This will help in ensuring a more focussed research
towards the completion of the dissertation. Selection of various articles is the
next task after the completion of research topic and question in the dissertation.
Hence various kinds of strategies will be used so that research is conducted in a
proper manner.
Search terms
It is very necessary formulate proper keywords so that various articles
can be selected on that basis. This will help in selecting relevant articles which
will help in completing the study in successful way. Various search terms can be
as follows:
TERM 1: Sexual health promotion, Sexual illness
TERM 2: Teenage pregnancies, sexually transmitted disease.

Cont...
Inclusion and exclusion criteria
This is the criteria which helps in selecting appropriate articles which are
relevant to the studies. This method will be more effective in choosing all
those articles which will help in gathering information related to the research
topic.
Inclusion criteria: Based on this criteria only those articles will be selected that
will be printed in English language. Also those articles will be included which
will be printed after 2007
Exclusion criteria: All those articles will not be added in the study which will
not be printed in English language. Those articles will also be excluded which
have been published before 2007.

GANTT CHART
Time scale for the current research