Special Issue "Using Mobile Technology to Promote Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health"
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Adolescents".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2024 | Viewed by 1580
Special Issue Editor
Interests: adolescents; sexually transmitted infections; HIV prevention; mobile technology; women; safe sex communications; minority populations; LGBT; teen pregnancy; parent–child; grandparent–grandchild
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Each person goes through puberty and adolescent development, and each person deserves the right to achieve healthy sexual development. Adolescents are more vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections, HIV or unintended pregnancy than any other age group. Adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections are serious public health issues. To improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health, it is essential to develop a supportive environment with parents, peers and health educators. Adolescents should have access to evidence-based comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information and health care providers should have the knowledge and skills to deliver sexual and reproductive health services. Yet, with the current pandemic and with remote care and learning, did gaps in the delivery of adolescent sexual and reproductive health information occur? Have innovative mobile strategies been developed to reach adolescents, especially LGBT youths with adolescent and sexual health information in schools, shelters and health care settings during the pandemic?
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge concerning adolescent sexual and reproductive health and mobile technology. New research papers, reviews, case reports and conference papers are welcome to this issue. Papers dealing with strategies to deliver adolescent sexual and reproductive health both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with mobile technology are also welcome. Other accepted manuscript types include methodological papers, position papers, brief reports, and commentaries.
Dr. Judith Cornelius
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- adolescent
- sexual health
- reproductive health
- innovation
- safe sex communication
- mobile technology
- parent–child sexual communication
- grandparent–grandchild sexual communication
- risk reduction sexual communication
- LGBTQ adolescents
- sexual minorities
- telemedicine
