Community Health Article: HIV and Adolescents

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This paper analyzes a scholarly research study regarding HIV, STDs and American adolescents. The points attended to are: the community and community health issue described by the article, the reason for selecting this community and issue, description of the issue, background factors which contribute to the issue, local data available, possible community health nursing interventions and teaching strategies and any links to Orem's nursing model that might better describe or remedy this problem.

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"In their scholarly research study, "Implications of racial and gender differences in patterns of adolescent risk behavior for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases," authors Bauer, Cho, Hallfors, Halpern, Iritani, and Waller set out to examine the prevalence, intensity, scope, and causes of HIV-contraction and spread, as well as that of other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), among the high-risk adolescent demographic. This cross-section of today's society is chosen for the study, as their risk factors are many and dangerous, and as the authors note: "few studies have systematically investigated risk behavior patterns by subgroup, particularly with nationally representative data" (Bauer et al., 2004, p. 239). This is the drive and rationale for selecting to perform this study, as the children are our future and research and care needs to be undertaken in order for safer and healthier choices to be made by and for them."

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