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Condoms - Softcover

 
9780727912671: Condoms
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0727912674 ISBN 13: 9780727912671
Publisher: BMJ Books, 2000

Synopsis

This internationally contributed book will make an important contribution to knowledge about the production and use of condoms worldwide. It discusses their use in the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the need for social marketing to persuade populations worldwide of the need for them.

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About the Author

Adrian Mindel, Professor in the Academic Unit of Sexual Health Medicine, University of Sydney and New South Wales, Sydney.

Robert Miller, Senior Lecturer in Medicine and Genitourinary Medicine, University College, London.

From the Back Cover

The use of condoms can bring major preventive and public health benefits, controlling the spread of sexually transmitted disease and avoiding unwanted pregnancy.

This book explores these important implications from the healthy care worker's point of view. Written by world renowned experts in sexually transmitted diseases and public healthy, it covers all aspects from manufacture, to the benefits of usage for the individual, and as part of a public health programme.

Topics include:

  • Manufacture
  • Prevention of pregnancy
  • Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases
  • Virucides and spermicides
  • Condom use
  • Population surveys
  • Condoms in commercial sex
  • Condoms for anal sex
  • Social marketing
  • Female condom
  • Availability of condom – barriers to access and usage
  • International safety standards

The comprehensive coverage of this current and increasingly important area of health care makes Condoms a unique guide for anyone working in STD clinics, and all those in public health, as well as for family doctors.

From the Inside Flap

The use of condoms can bring major preventive and public health benefits, controlling the spread of sexually transmitted disease and avoiding unwanted pregnancy.

This book explores these important implications from the healthy care worker’s point of view. Written by world renowned experts in sexually transmitted diseases and public healthy, it covers all aspects from manufacture, to the benefits of usage for the individual, and as part of a public health programme.

Topics include:


  • Manufacture

  • Prevention of pregnancy

  • Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases

  • Virucides and spermicides

  • Condom use

  • Population surveys

  • Condoms in commercial sex

  • Condoms for anal sex

  • Social marketing

  • Female condom

  • Availability of condom – barriers to access and usage

  • International safety standards

The comprehensive coverage of this current and increasingly important area of health care makes Condoms a unique guide for anyone working in STD clinics, and all those in public health, as well as for family doctors.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
BMJ Books
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0727912674
ISBN 13 
9780727912671
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
240
Editor
Mindel Adrian, Miller Robert F.