PREP as a teaching tool.
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Education, Medical, Continuing↗
Biomedical subjects
Mary Ellen Rimsza
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Substance abuse on the college campus.
Substance abuse is a major health and behavioral concern in college students. Alcohol and marijuana are the most commonly abused drugs on college campuses. Others include tobacco, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, gamma-hydroxybutyrate, flunitrazepam (Rohypnol), lysergic acid, ketamine, methamphetamine, phencyclidine, cocaine, and psilocybin mushrooms. This article reviews the use of these drugs by college students. Substance use is a major contributing factor in poor academic performance and failure to successfully complete a college education.
Humans↗
Sexually transmitted infections: new guidelines for an old problem on the college campus.
Approximately 80% of college-age adolescents are sexually active and at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Over 4 million STIs occur in teenagers annually and young adults between the ages of 18 and 24, while adolescents 15 to 17 years of age have higher rates of STIs than any other age group in the United States. Thus, the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of STIs are a critical part of college health care. This article will discuss the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of some of the most common STIs encountered in the college-age group, with an emphasis on new guidelines for treatment.
Guidelines as Topic↗
Common medical problems of the college student.
The college health physician cares for college students who present with a wide variety of medical disorders. This article reviews the management of four common medical problems: infectious mononucleosis, asthma, migraine headaches, and urinary tract infections. College students can become ill, and it is important that they have health care services designed to deal with their health care issues.
Asthma↗
Contraception for college students.
An important issue for human beings is the acquisition of normal sexual health, including the understanding and application of reproductive health when needed. Comprehensive sexuality education is not a topic provided to many children, adolescents, or college students in the United States, however. Students who were sexually active in high school may continue to be at risk for unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases in their college life; those who chose abstinence in high school may abandon this concept in college, choosing coital behavior at all levels of university life-freshman through graduate levels. Most American college students are sexually active and many have multiple partners. This article reviews current contraceptive methods available to college students. College health providers and pediatricians are urged to be vigilant about the reproductive health needs of the college students they serve.
Contraception↗
Uninsured children: how we count matters.
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Adolescent↗
Adolescent sexuality and disability.
All human beings are sexual from birth to death and all adolescents, with or without chronic illness or disability, must incorporate appropriate concepts of sexuality into their process of development from child to adult. This chapter reviews normal adolescent development with specific reference to sexuality. Potential effects of chronic illness and disability on this process are reviewed, including coital behavior, sexual abuse, sexual dysfunction, and sexual offending. Management of sexual issues in chronically ill or disabled adolescents is considered, including comments about gynecologic needs of disabled girls.
Adolescent↗