Akid, M. (2001), 'Sexual health. Policy vacuum blamed for STI rise' Nursing Times (36), 9.
When looking at this journal I found it to be the least useful but did think it had a few good points that could have been taken further, so this is why I have decided to use this because of these examples. This does mention the causes of why the spread of sexually transmitted diseases are so high, because they are not very well advertised and not enough information is given out about them. It also mentions the policies of how these diseases can be treated and how it can be approached by the government and NHS.
Cooper, RG. (2007) 'Sexually transmitted disease/HIV health-care policy and service provision in Britain' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STD & AIDS 18 (10) 655-661.
The author of this journal discusses historical developments of sexually transmitted disease and sexual health policies in Britain, principally from the 19th to 21st century's. It mainly goes on about AIDS and how it affected the country in the last century and also how advertising and counseling needed to be more effective so that the public were more aware of the risks associated with unprotected sex. I found this not to be a very interesting and informative piece, I found I didn't learn anything I didn't already know about this topic before.
Freeman, E. (2009) 'Promoting chlamydia screening with posters and leaflets in general practice - a qualitative study, BMC Public Health. 9, 383.
This journal goes into detail of how chlamydia is advertised through patients in medical practices as well as a study of how nurses and doctors make aware this condition to the patients, this being by posters and leaflets. I found this journal quite interesting as the author had questioned nurses on how affective they thought these ways of advertising the disease worked and found out that they think it is ineffective as it makes a patient feel awkward and uncomfortable and don't take interest in the advertisement. This raised an issue of how affective how promoting awareness of chlamydia is actually tackled.
He, Qun (2006), 'Potential bridges for HIV infection to men who have sex with men in Guangzhou, China' AIDS Behave, 10 S17-23
This looks at sexually transmitted disease's outside Britain, this being in China, it looks into how male on male sex is a big cause in HIV spread and how not enough is done to prevent the spread of this, as well as what is being done in the information given out about HIV and protective sex, which is basically not enough as shown in the continuation of the disease. It also mentions the numbers of the number of people, single, married etc who contract the disease which goes on to talk about the most common contraction of HIV, which shows it is not jut through sex that HIV can be transmitted.
Klausner, JD. (2002) 'Are HIV drug advertisements contributing to increases in risk behavior among men in San Francisco, 2001? AIDS 16 (17) 2349-2350.
In 2001 the author quantified exposure to HIV medication direct to consumer advertising and its relationship to attitudes and behaviours among sexually transmitted disease clinic attendees. They found that homosexual men frequently saw HIV medication adverts. HIV Positive Homosexual men with more advertisement exposure believed HIV was a less serious disease, they believed these adverts influenced them into the decision to have unprotected sex.
Mellanby, A. (1992) 'Teenagers and risks of sexually-transmitted diseases - A need for the provision of balanced information' Genitourinary Medicine 68 (4) 241-244.
This is an evaluation of teenager's knowledge and understanding about sexually transmitted disease, conception and contraception. It goes on to explain how teenagers may underestimate their risk of contracting a STD after the promotion of information about HIV/Aids. it says that simple messages about them in mass media advertising programs may have unwanted results and need to be targeted and easy to understand for teenagers to take in the effect.
Vivancos, S. (2007) 'Internet treatment of sexually transmitted infections - a public health hazard? BMC Public Health. 7, 333.
In this journal that I have chosen it goes on about how those who wish to keep their sexually transmitted disease private search the Internet, but this can result in problems as the medicine sent out can be hazardous, the study for this was to investigate which sites and their medicinal products were the most effective and which were home made remedies. This showed me that the Internet is not always reliable and that treatment for a STD should be done through your doctor who is more reliable.
The reason I have chosen these journals is because the topic I decided to take from my chosen chapter that I took from the Tipping Point was the topic of sexually transmitted diseases and how advertising can affect the spread of them, some of these were more useful that others but believe the ones I have written about here have at least a little bit of useful information.
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