Public Health Priority: STDs

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Public health priority: STDs
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Introduction:
In the present day, various complex and complicated diseases are representing in the
health care scenario, which is why the impact of health concerns is intensifying with each
passing day. Need for higher and more advanced health promotional activities is imperative to
address the presenting concerns (Hills, Dengel & Lubans, 2015). Among the myriad of health
issues, there are certain massive health concerns which effects the society with much more
intensity and in turn demand a more extensive and robust management initiative. Sexual health
has become one of the greatest and most deliberating health issues all across the world and with
each passing day, the threat to the young generation from the myriad of different sexual health
concerns is ever rising (Liu et al., 2015). This essay will explore the public health priority of
sexually transmitted diseases affecting the young adults is order to understand the incidence and
prevalence and how health promotion can be a strategic solution taking the assistance of Ottawa
charter and Jakarta declaration.
Definition of the health priority:
Health priority can be characterized as the health concern that impacts a large population
of society or community, and leads to a huge detrimental impact to the target population. In this
case, the chosen health priority for this paper is sexually transmitted diseases or STDs. Sexual
health is a very important aspect of human health and well-being and yet it is also one of the
most neglected health areas in different populations (Yonker et al., 2015). Sexual health
awareness and literacy is minimal in the Confucian societies and cultures, and for the
Singaporean communities the impact of the sexual awareness among the adolescents and
teenagers, which is reflected multiple fold in the incidence and prevalence of sexually

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transmitted diseases among the young adults, aged 18-30 years. Hence, this health concern has
been chosen as the target health issue for this paper.
Target group:
Sexually transmitted diseases are the most pertinent and abundantly reported in the
young adult population. Among young adults in Singapore, the most commonly reported STIs
are gonorrhoea and Chlamydia; and the females represent almost twice as the infection rates in
Singapore as compared to males. Hence, the young adults referring to the age range of 18 to 30
has been selected as the target population for the chosen health priority to be analysed and
explored in this paper. According to the Ng et al. (2018) however, the rate of HIV AIDS
transmission is for hire in Singapore being close to 5600 people in Singapore in the present day
living with HIV AIDS. Although it has to be highlighted that HIV AIDS is not always a
sexually transmitted disease and it can be transferred through blood transfusion or using similar
injectable drug tools, it also needs to be acknowledged as the majority of this particular disease is
facilitated sexually.
Argument and literature evidence:
There is a mountain of research evidence that indicates at sexually transmitted diseases
to be one of the most imperative and influential health hazards that affects our society in the
present-day scenario. Sexually transmitted diseases are not bound to only the young adult
population of the society, the prevalence and predominance of the disease is notably higher in the
young adult population (Mortimer et al., 2015). Considering the statistical data, in the last
decade the number of citizens living with sexually transmitted disease has been close to 900 in
Singapore. In the last 10 years the initiative at addressing the sexual health have successfully
reduced the number of people dealing with sexually transmitted diseases by almost 50%, and yet