书目名称 | Preventing AIDS | 副标题 | Theories and Methods | 编辑 | Ralph J. DiClemente,John L. Peterson | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Aids Prevention and Mental Health | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Public health has a legacy of neglect regarding social and behavioral research. Too often, prompted by technical and scientific progress, we have ignored even marginalized-the vital "human element" in health thinking and prac tice. Thus, for example, while family planning programs focused on providing a choice among safe and effective contraceptive methods (a supremely worthy goal), the central issue of sexuality and sexual behavior was generally neglected. Similarly, the enormous and important efforts to develop rapid and reliable diagnostic and treatment methods for sexually transmitted diseases helped divert attention away from the crucial issues of sexual practice. In short, we seem to have difficulty addressing the fundamental behaviors-including sex, drug taking and other intoxications, and violence-that are central to the major causes of preventable morbidity, disability, and premature mortality in the world today. Our collective reluctance to examine and understand ourselves is also expressed in the oft-repeated pipedream that scientific progress will "take care of" the HIV / AIDS pandemic by delivering a preventive vaccine, an effective cure, or both. Yet even a cursory | 出版日期 | Book 1994 | 关键词 | AIDS; HIV prevention; health; intervention; prevention; sexual behaviour | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1193-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4899-1195-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4899-1193-3Series ISSN 1566-0761 | issn_series | 1566-0761 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1994 |
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