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Comportamento do Adolescente , Necessidades e Demandas de Serviços de Saúde , Pesquisa sobre Serviços de Saúde , Adolescente , Alcoolismo , Maus-Tratos Infantis , Feminino , Humanos , Entrevistas como Assunto , Masculino , Relações Enfermeiro-Paciente , Gravidez , Gravidez na Adolescência , Trabalho Sexual , Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis/etiologia , Valores SociaisRESUMO
PIP: The youth clinics of the Department of Community Health Services in Los Angeles, designed to meet both the theraputic and preventative health needs of the young, offer contraceptive services, abortion counseling and referral. Individual, group and community education are pillars of the program. In 1971, 8 clinics had an annual patient case load of 150,000. The pill and the IUD are methods most frequently prescribed. Education focus is on elementary reproductive physiology, for lack of accurate information and mythology are the common factors in unprotected sexual exposures. To encourage the widest possible use of such services requires that health professionals openly endorse their availability. They must foster nonjudgemental attitudes and provide the young with opportunities to explore their own sexual behavior.^ieng
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Aborto Induzido , Adolescente , Instituições de Assistência Ambulatorial , Anticoncepção , Estudos de Avaliação como Assunto , Planejamento em Saúde , Fatores Etários , Aconselhamento , Atenção à Saúde , Demografia , Serviços de Planejamento Familiar , Saúde , Instalações de Saúde , População , Características da População , Educação SexualRESUMO
If we are to influence the numerical trends of venereal disease and of unwanted pregnancies in the young, family planning services should be made easily available to them. To encourage the widest possible and most effective use of such services requires that health professionals openly endorse their ready availability. They must foster non-judgmental attitudes, however unorthodox patient life styles may be, and provide the young with opportunities to explore their own sexual behavior. The Youth Clinics of the Department of Community Health Services in Los Angeles are designed to meet both the immediate therapeutic and preventive health needs of our patients. Contraceptive services, abortion counseling and referrals as well as individual, group and community education are the primary pillars of our program. There is an enormous task for all of us who are concerned with adolescents to press for sex education programs, in or out of the school system, that will include adults as well as our children.