Sexually transmitted infections in teens and youth challenge science and technology

IF 2.7 Q2 OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

Womens Health Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI:10.15406/mojwh.2019.08.00238

A. Alfaro, Damarys Chacón O’farrill

引用次数: 2

Abstract

WHO considers adolescence as the period understood life between 10 and 19 and is assumed as a “psychological age” where it is necessary to devise psychological development “as a process that does not happen automatically nor determined fatally by maturation of the organism but is primarily a historical determination social.1,2 Teenagers are considered a vulnerable group because of sexual and social behaviors that increase susceptibility to a disease or a poor health, as well as being associated with the perception of erroneous risk of the possibility of contracting the infection or be immersed in pregnancy (perceived vulnerability).3–7 Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) include a number of diseases, infectious nature in which sexual transmission is epidemiologically relevant, although some of them is not the most important transmission mechanism. It is now known more than 30 STIs, some of them not curables.8

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青少年性传播疾病对科学技术构成挑战

世卫组织认为青春期是10岁至19岁之间的一段时间，被认为是一个“心理年龄”，在这个年龄有必要将心理发展设计为“一个不是自动发生的过程，也不是由生物体的成熟致命地决定的，而是主要是历史决定的社会决定。”1,2青少年被认为是弱势群体，因为他们的性行为和社会行为增加了对疾病的易感性或健康状况不佳，而且他们认为有可能感染这种疾病或处于怀孕状态(认为的脆弱性)。3-7性传播感染包括一些具有传染性的疾病，其中性传播在流行病学上是相关的，尽管其中一些不是最重要的传播机制。现在已知有30多种性传播感染，其中一些无法治愈

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Womens Health OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.80

自引率

4.20%

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审稿时长

15 weeks

期刊介绍： For many diseases, women’s physiology and life-cycle hormonal changes demand important consideration when determining healthcare management options. Age- and gender-related factors can directly affect treatment outcomes, and differences between the clinical management of, say, an adolescent female and that in a pre- or postmenopausal patient may be either subtle or profound. At the same time, there are certain conditions that are far more prevalent in women than men, and these may require special attention. Furthermore, in an increasingly aged population in which women demonstrate a greater life-expectancy.