Medical accuracy in sexuality education: Ideology and the scientific process

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1786-1792

  Santelli, John S ^a  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTINENCE; ACCURACY; CONSENSUS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH EDUCATOR; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; LEGAL ASPECT; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PEER REVIEW; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEXUAL EDUCATION; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADVISORY COMMITTEE; CONFLICT; ETHICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICS; RELIGION; SCIENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADVISORY COMMITTEES; CONSENSUS; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; POLICY MAKING; POLITICS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SCIENCE; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUAL ABSTINENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52449083747     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.119602     Document Type: Review

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