Sexually transmitted disease among young adults in Singapore

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Sexually transmitted disease
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Introduction:
Over the years, the occurrence of chronic and life threating diseases contributed to the
mortality and morbidity rate that in turn emphasized the need of health care sectors. Therefore,
evidence-based promotional activities were required for addressing these health concerns. As
discussed by Kima and Shin (2018), in Singapore, a diverse health concerns affecting the
majority of the individuals in society. Sexual health is one of these major health concerns that
pose threat to the society, especially for younger individuals (Cuffe et al., 2016). Therefore,
robust management and health promotional activities required for reducing the threat of these
health concerns. This paper will argue about the prime cause of sexually transmitted disease
(STD) amongst the younger adults of the population through prevalence and incidences and
health promotional activities as a strategy with the assistance of framework of wellbeing Ottawa
charter and Jakarta declaration.
Health priority:
Health priority is considered as a health concern which affected a huge part of the society
that in turn imposes a threat to the target populace (Hills, Dengel & Lubans, 2015). In the recent
scenario, the chosen health priority for this paper is sexually transmitted disease. Sexual health
is unique aspects of a human being yet the most ignored area in a population of Singapore
Matson et al. (2018). As discussed by Kima and Shin (2018), due to inadequate literacy and
awareness of sexual health, the incidents and prevalence of the sexually transmitted disease are
mostly observed in the younger adults of 18 to 30 years in Singapore. Lim et al. (2016), reported
that STD has become highly prevalent in approximately 30% of the younger adults aged between

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18 to 30 years in Singapore. Therefore, this health concern has been chosen for the target
population as a health priority.
Target group:
According to Korenromp et al. (2018), STD is most abundant in the younger adults of
Singapore aged in between 18 to 30 years. A study suggested that amongst the population of 18
to 30 years, the maximum informed STD are chlamydia and gonorrhea and it is highlighted
mostly in female compared to male population (Fenkl, Hughes & Jones, 2016). In 2017, in the
case of chlamydia, 1,069,111 younger individuals reported the disease whereas for gonorrhea the
reported case is 622.8 (Thomas et al., 2015). As discussed by Harvey et al. (2018),
approximately 30% of the younger adults in Singapore are involved in unsafe sex practice and
experiencing sexually transmitted disease. Causer et al. (2018), suggested that in the present day
because of unprotected sex, the prevalence of HIV transmission is observed in 5600 individuals.
Hence, younger adults of 18 to 30 years have been selected as the target population regarding the
health priority for analysis.
Argument through literature evidence:
There is a mountain of evidence that highlighted sexually transmitted disease as the most
overbearing as well as a well-being hazard which poorly influenced the population of Singapore.
(DeVoe et al., 2018), argued that although the prevalence of the sexually transmitted disease is
not restricted to the younger adults of the populace, it is exceptionally abundant in the younger
population that intensifying the need of health care management. Considering current statistics,
in Singapore, 900 citizens were experiencing sexually transmitted disease and 50% of them are
younger adults of mentioned age (STI Statistics, 2019). In the recent years, in male, 29.9%

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increase of the prevalence of sexually transmitted disease was observed whereas, for female, an
increase of 8.8% was observed (Hartarti et al., 2018). On a different note, Mortimer et al.
(2015), argued that the prevalence of the sexually transmitted disease is because of inadequate
knowledge and lack of consciousness associated with sexual health. In Singapore, the major STD
are chlamydia and gonorrhea whereas infection from Herpes simplex virus are less abundant the
population of Singapore. DeVoe et al. ( 2018), argued that although because of the degree of
severity, sex education was given to the population of Singapore, it barely reduced the
prevalence of the disease in targeted population. Therefore, health promotional activities
regarding the health concern for the target is under the focus of this paper.
Frameworks of well-being and fundamentals of promotion:
Health promotional activities are recognized as a probable tool for addressing any health
concerns and decrease of it. Hence, health promotional activities have a groundbreaking power
for decreasing health concern. Moore et al. (2016) suggested that inadequate knowledge and lack
of consciousness among the civilization regarding safe sex and related health concern, especially
in the isolated part is a vital contributor to the high abundance of sexually transmitted disease
among target people. National Health authorities have taken a number of steps to enable sex
education amongst younger adults but the results were inadequate to reduce the prevalence that
further indicated that education is the not only required for managing the disease (Kima & Shin
2018). This is because of the inaccurate infrastructure and systematic approach to health
promotion.
Therefore, the framework of wellbeing has been chosen in this paper as a systematic
approach to health promotion. There are a diverse frameworks of wellbeing were highlighted
through accumulated evidence yet most appropriate frameworks for this chosen priority are the