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Adolescent risk-taking, cancer risk, and life course approaches to preventionJohn S Santelli
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York Electronic address
J Adolesc Health 52:S41-4. 2013..Moreover, life course perspectives augment traditional public health approaches to prevention by emphasizing the importance of unique windows of opportunity for prevention...
Abstinence promotion under PEPFAR: the shifting focus of HIV prevention for youthJohn S Santelli
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Glob Public Health 8:1-12. 2013..Primary prevention programmes within PEPFAR are essential and nations must be able to design HIV prevention based on local needs and prevention science...
Contraceptive use and pregnancy risk among U.S. high school students, 1991-2003John S Santelli
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 38:106-11. 2006..Trends in teenagers' contraceptive use have received less attention than trends in adolescent sexual intercourse, despite the importance of contraceptive use to preventing teenage pregnancy...
An exploration of the dimensions of pregnancy intentions among women choosing to terminate pregnancy or to initiate prenatal care in New Orleans, LouisianaJohn S Santelli
Applied Sciences Branch, Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Public Health 96:2009-15. 2006..We examined pregnancy decisionmaking among women seeking abortion or prenatal care...
Explaining recent declines in adolescent pregnancy in the United States: the contribution of abstinence and improved contraceptive useJohn S Santelli
Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY, USA
Am J Public Health 97:150-6. 2007..We explored the relative contributions of declining sexual activity and improved contraceptive use to the recent decline in adolescent pregnancy rates in the United States...
Comparability of contraceptive prevalence etimates for women from the 2002 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance SystemJohn Santelli
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Public Health Rep 123:147-54. 2008..The 2002 BRFSS uses data collection methods that are considerably different from the NSFG...
Medical accuracy in sexuality education: ideology and the scientific processJohn S Santelli
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 60 Haven Ave, B2, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1786-92. 2008..I propose a concise definition of medical accuracy that may be useful to policymakers, health educators, and other health practitioners...
Trends in sexual risk behaviors, by nonsexual risk behavior involvement, U.S. high school students, 1991-2007John Santelli
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Adolesc Health 44:372-9. 2009..We examined the association between involvement in nonsexual risk behaviors and trends among sexual behaviors...
Changing behavioral risk for pregnancy among high school students in the United States, 1991-2007John S Santelli
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 60 Haven Avenue, B2, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Adolesc Health 45:25-32. 2009..After dramatic declines in teen births and pregnancies from 1991 to 2005, teen birth rates in the United States increased in 2006 and 2007. We examined behavioral determinants of these trends and the likely direction of future trends...
Toward a multidimensional measure of pregnancy intentions: evidence from the United StatesJohn S Santelli
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 60 Haven Avenue, B2, New York, NY 10032, USA
Stud Fam Plann 40:87-100. 2009....
Teen fertility in transition: recent and historic trends in the United StatesJohn S Santelli
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 31:371-83 4 p following 383. 2010..S. and European fertility patterns. Public policies related to HIV prevention and sexuality education may have played a critical role in influencing teen pregnancy risk...
Abstinence and abstinence-only education: a review of U.S. policies and programsJohn Santelli
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Adolesc Health 38:72-81. 2006..Abstinence-only programs threaten fundamental human rights to health, information, and life...
Measuring factors underlying intendedness of women's first and later pregnanciesIlene S Speizer
Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 36:198-205. 2004..Conventional measures of pregnancy intendedness do not reflect the multiple factors affecting a woman's pregnancy-related intentions and attitudes...
Pregnancy risk among black, white, and Hispanic teen girls in New York City public schoolsElizabeth Needham Waddell
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, USA
J Urban Health 87:426-39. 2010..Access to long-acting contraceptive methods must be expanded for all sexually active high school students...
Changes in formal sex education: 1995-2002Laura Duberstein Lindberg
Guttmacher Institute, New York, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 38:182-9. 2006..Although comprehensive sex education is broadly supported by health professionals, funding for abstinence-only education has increased...
Can changes in sexual behaviors among high school students explain the decline in teen pregnancy rates in the 1990s?John S Santelli
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Adolesc Health 35:80-90. 2004..Previous attempts to explain these declines focused on the period before 1995 and did not directly calculate the impact of improved contraceptive use...
Trends in adolescent contraceptive use, unprotected and poorly protected sex, 1991-2003John E Anderson
Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, HIV, and STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Adolesc Health 38:734-9. 2006..To estimate trends in use and nonuse of effective protection among adolescents 1991-2003, and to assess factors associated with poorly protected sex in 2003...
Differences between mistimed and unwanted pregnancies among women who have live birthsDenise V D'Angelo
Computer Sciences Corp, Atlanta, GA, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 36:192-7. 2004..Mistimed and unwanted pregnancies that result in live births are commonly considered together as unintended pregnancies, but they may have different precursors and outcomes...
Reproductive health in school-based health centers: findings from the 1998-99 census of school-based health centersJohn S Santelli
Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, K22, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Adolesc Health 32:443-51. 2003..To describe the state of reproductive health services, including access to contraception and health center policies, among school-based health centers (SBHCs) serving adolescents in the United States..
Noncoital sexual activities among adolescentsLaura Duberstein Lindberg
Guttmacher Institute, New York, New York 10038, USA
J Adolesc Health 43:231-8. 2008..We used data from Cycle 6 of National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to explore factors related to oral and anal sex among adolescents...
Adolescent dual use of condoms and hormonal contraception: trends and correlates 1991-2001John E Anderson
Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Sex Transm Dis 30:719-22. 2003..Use of condoms with hormonal contraceptive methods (dual use) is recommended for adolescents at increased risk for sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy...
Missed opportunities for sexually transmitted diseases, human immunodeficiency virus, and pregnancy prevention services during adolescent health supervision visitsGale R Burstein
Division of HIV and AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Pediatrics 111:996-1001. 2003....
Do abstinence-plus interventions reduce sexual risk behavior among youth?Shari L Dworkin
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, and the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
PLoS Med 4:e276. 2007
Long-term health correlates of timing of sexual debut: results from a national US studyTheo G M Sandfort
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Public Health 98:155-61. 2008..We explored long-term health consequences of age at sexual initiation and of abstinence until marriage to evaluate empirical support for the claim that postponing sexual initiation has beneficial health effects...
Initiation of sexual intercourse among middle school adolescents: the influence of psychosocial factorsJohn S Santelli
Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
J Adolesc Health 34:200-8. 2004..To explore potential psychosocial predictors for initiation of sexual intercourse among middle-school, inner-city youth, using longitudinal data from the Healthy and Alive! project...
Contraceptive use--United States and territories, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2002Diana M Bensyl
Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
MMWR Surveill Summ 54:1-72. 2005..Information about contraceptive use for specific subpopulations can be used to further refine state efforts to improve contraceptive use and subsequently decrease the occurrence of unintended pregnancy...
Mobilizing communities for teen pregnancy prevention: associations between coalition characteristics and perceived accomplishmentsMichelle C Kegler
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Adolesc Health 37:S31-41. 2005....
Reliability in adolescent reporting of clinician counseling, health care use, and health behaviorsJohn Santelli
Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
Med Care 40:26-37. 2002..Accurate measures of health-care use by adolescents would be useful in managed care quality assurance, public health surveillance, and health-care research...
Changes in HIV-related preventive behavior in the US population: data from national surveys, 1987-2002John E Anderson
Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 34:195-202. 2003..Prevention programs serving high-risk populations need to work toward increasing safe sex practices with main partners and HIV testing among the never-tested, particularly reproductive-age women...
The measurement and meaning of unintended pregnancyJohn Santelli
Division of Reproductive Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 35:94-101. 2003
Approaches to adolescent sexuality educationMary A Ott
Section of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, 410 West 10th Street, HS1001, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Adolesc Med State Art Rev 18:558-70, viii. 2007..In this article we review the effectiveness, medical accuracy, and ethical concerns related to different approaches to sexuality education...
Abstinence and abstinence-only educationMary A Ott
Section of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol 19:446-52. 2007..To review recent literature on medical accuracy, program effectiveness, and ethical concerns related to abstinence-only policies for adolescent sexuality education...
Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in unintended pregnancy among postpartum women in CaliforniaCatherine Cubbin
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Matern Child Health J 6:237-46. 2002....
So what have we learned? The Editors' comments on the coalition approach to teen pregnancyLorraine V Klerman
Institute for Child, Youth, and Family Policy, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
J Adolesc Health 37:S115-8. 2005
Guidelines for adolescent health research. A position paper of the Society for Adolescent MedicineJohn S Santelli
J Adolesc Health 33:396-409. 2003
Sex education and sexual socialization: roles for educators and parentsRonny A Shtarkshall
Social Science and Health Behavior Program, Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Israel
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 39:116-9. 2007
Research Grants
- Rakai Adolescent Project (RAP)John S Santelli; Fiscal Year: 2010....
