Effective Sexual Health Interventions: Issues In Experimental Evaluation

Improving Women’s Health: Issues & Interventions

Sexual health issues in men with cancer.

While the cancer patient may be affected by sexual dysfunction throughout the entire course of the disease, sexual health is largely underevaluated and undertreated. Sexual problems should be anticipated and patients should be actively screened as they are unlikely to initiate discussion on sexual issues. Cancer-related sexual dysfunction may involve several components, and an understanding of ...

Sexual oncology: sexual health issues in women with cancer.

Sexual problems are widespread among female cancer patients and survivors. Dysfunction may result from various oncologic therapies such as surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormonal manipulation, and cytostatic medication. Additionally, psychologic distress that the patient or her partner experiences during diagnosis and treatment of malignancy can impair a healthy female sexual respons...

Evaluation of Public Health Interventions

Evaluation encompasses the set of tools that are used to measure the effectiveness of public health programs by determining what works. Traditional evaluations in public health have focused on assessing the impact of specific program activities on defined outcomes. Evaluation is also a conceptual approach to the use of data—as part of a quality improvement process—in public health management. P...

Predictors of physicians' involvement in addressing sexual health issues.

OBJECTIVES Although the World Health Organization has declared that sexual health is an integral part of overall health, physicians seem to engage in taking the sexual health history less than their patients would desire. This study aimed at investigating the factors that predict physicians' involvement in addressing sexual health issues, including their attitudes toward the doctor-patient rela...