Defining Terms and Evaluating Abstinence-Only Education Programs: Politics and PracticeDianne L. Kerr PhD, CHES
Avoiding sexual activity (sexual abstinence) is completely effective in eliminating sexual transmission of HIV and preventing AIDS. That said, sex is a normal part of life. It is not easy for everyone to remain abstinent. Educational campaigns have not been successful in reducing HIV transmission...
For many researchers and recovery advocates, recovery begins with the development of long-term abstinence (i.e., sobriety) from all psychoactive substances, whereas others disagree with this general stance. Specifically, there exist two related points of discussion. The first point of discussion is ...
The natural concept of health [5] postulates that a person is healthy only if all organs function within defined limits, given a statistically normal environment. Disease is defined as the subnormal functioning of one or more organs. In this model, health and disease are mutually exclusive; in ...
Defining Terms and Evaluating Abstinence-Only Education Programs: Politics and PracticePublic HealthEnvironmental and Occupational HealthHealth(social science)doi:10.1080/19325037.2003.10603578a Associate professor of health education and promotion at Kenta Associate professor of health education and promotion ...
This study examined how program directors, instructors, and participant youth from a sample of federally funded abstinence-only-until-marriage education programs in Texas define the term "abstinence" and its object (from what one abstains). A sample of eight programs, from the 32 federally ...
Goodson P, Suther S, Pruitt BE, Wilson K. Defining abstinence: views of directors, instructors, and participants in abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in Texas. J Sch Health 2003;73(3):91- 6.Goodson P, Suther S, Pruitt BE, et al. Defining abstinence; views of direc- tors,...
[62]. Further, the amount of lost bone was dependent on the number of cigarettes smoked [62]. It is not surprising that smoking cessation diminishes the risk of initiation and progression of destructive periodontal diseases and improves the response to periodontal therapy [63]. Abstinence from ...