Promoting sexual health amongst resettled youth with refugee backgrounds
Date Submitted : 07-Sep-2009
Themes : youth, sexual health, settlement, refugees
This study focused on how resettled youth1 with refugee backgrounds access, interpret and implement sexual health information. It had five primary aims:
1. To identify how youth find out about sexual health and illness.
2. To identify how youth understand and interpret the information they receive around
sexual health risk and protection.
3. To describe how youth use sexual health information.
4. To examine the enablers and barriers to the implemention of sexual health information.
5. To develop recommendations for strategies to promote sexual health literacy and sexual
health amongst young people with refugee backgrounds.
Download the file: 280011_72752_Youth sexual health_report_La Trobe.pdf
Submitted By:
McMichael, C
Refugee Health Research Centre
Phone : 03 9479 5874
Email : larrc@latrobe.edu.au
Website : www.latrobe.edu.au/larrc