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Adolescent sexuality—changing needs and values

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Manuel Carballo
Manuel Carballo
Affiliation:
WHO, Geneva
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Concern about the health of adolescents, their patterns of social and sexual interaction as well as the ways in which they ultimately are able to adapt to the outcomes of their interaction is a relatively recent development (Carballo & Engstrom, 1975). In no small way the concern currently being addressed to this issue is indicative of a much broader preoccupation with the impact of social change on individual and community health in general. For while adolescents, because of their particular position in modern and modernizing societies, have possibly presented more socially dramatic manifestations of the effects of a new environment on lifestyle and behaviour, they have not been alone in experiencing these social change influences. Many of the ambiguities, stresses and needs of modern society have produced, in one way or another, health and psycho-social problems among other age groups too.

Type
IV. Adolescent sexuality
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 10 , supplement S5: Fertility in Adolescence , 1978 , pp. 249 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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