Embedding Public Health Policy in the Social Context: Sexual Behaviour and Perceptions of Risk

Zoë Slote Morris and Sandra Dawson

Chapter 6 in Future Public Health, 2009, pp 135-154 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Public health is directed towards improving the health of populations, rather than treating the diseases of individuals. Current English policy is set out in Choosing Health: Making Healthier Choices Easier (Department of Health, 2004) and focuses on individual behaviour change premised on a particular understanding of risk. A risk is defined by the World Health Organisation (2002) as ‘the probability of an adverse outcome, or a factor that raises this probability’ and can be used to refer to an endogenous or exogenous factor which is associated with an elevated chance of disease. Choosing Health focuses on ‘life-style’ risks. These include smoking, alcohol use, obesity and sexual health, and it is on the latter that this chapter focuses.

Keywords: Sexual Risk; Sexual Health; Unprotected Anal Intercourse; Sexually Transmit Disease; Risk Compensation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230582545_7

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