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5 lis 2024 · Sexual health, when viewed affirmatively, requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination and violence.
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Sexual health is expressed through diverse sexualities and forms of sexual expression. Sexual health is critically influenced by gender norms, roles, expectations and power dynamics. Sexual health needs to be understood within specific social, economic and political contexts.
16 maj 2024 · The World Health Organization defines sexual health as a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being related to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity.
WHO’s working definition of sexual health is “a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity.
Sexual health was defined as part of reproductive health in the Programme of Action of the International Confer- ence on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994.
Measuring sexual health: conceptual and practical considerations and related indicators 1 Background to the meeting Sexual health is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexu-ality and not merely the absence of disease, dys-function or infirmity (WHO, 2006). Human sexu-
Defining sexual health Efforts to define sexual health have been substantially influenced by the definition of health adopted by the World Health Organization in 1948. This views health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. In the field of sexual and