Providing Adolescent-Friendly Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Women's Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2023) | Viewed by 1714
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sexual and reproductive health and rights; adolescent health
Interests: sexual and reproductive health and rights; adolescent health; contraception; abortion
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Healthy sexual and reproductive practices among adolescents, including successful contraceptive use, requires access to high-quality, culturally and age-relevant sexual and reproductive health services. Adolescents face various barriers in obtaining information on and access to adequate sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services, such as lack of privacy or confidentiality, stigma, embarrassment, and even fear. Additionally, cost, clinic location, transportation, waiting room times, and inadequate scheduling may also reduce adolescents’ access to SRH services. Another important factor that may prevent adolescents from seeking care is a perceived unfriendly or judgmental provision of services. The World Health Organization has published guidelines for the implementation of an adolescent-friendly health service model to help nations provide accessible, acceptable, appropriate, equitable, and effective services.
Dr. Aremis Villalobos Hernández
Dr. Raffaela Schiavon
Dr. Celia Hubert
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sexual and reproductive healthcare
- adolescent-friendly care
- adolescent health services
- sexual health
- reproductive health services
- adolescents
- reproductive rights
- health service utilization
