The Who Concept of Sexual Health Applied to An Urban Poor Community in Mumbai,India |
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| Authors: | Purnima Mehrotra Stephen L Schensul Niranjan Saggurti Joseph A Burleson Shubhada Maitra |
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| Institution: | 1. HIV and AIDS Program, Population Council, New Delhi, India;2. Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, USA;3. School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India |
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| Abstract: | Objectives: The objectives of this study were to describe a scale that operationalizes the World Health Organization concept of sexual health and to assess factors associated with scale variation. Methods: Qualitative in-depth interviews (N = 39), sexual health interviews (N = 21), and survey data (N = 1,128) for this article are drawn from an Indo-U.S. project to reduce the incidence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections among poor urban married women (aged 18–49 years old) in Mumbai, India. Results: Lower sexual health status was significantly associated with gender inequity, marital violence, poorer marital relationships and physical health, and lower empowerment and social support. Conclusions: This work demonstrates the need to view sexual health in the broader context of community and family. |
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| Keywords: | Sexual health promotion women HIV STIs India |
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