Supporting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Through Innovative Research Approaches

International health care governing bodies define the ability to achieve and maintain sexual and reproductive health (SRH) as a fundamental human right [1 –3]. This rights-based paradigm places at its core—for individuals of all ages but especially for adolescents and young adults [4]—the ability to access accurate SRH-focused information and education, as well as to receive developmentally appropriate, SRH-focused preventative counseling and cl inical care [5,6]. A rights-based framework also both recognizes that many young people face multiplicative barriers to adequate care based on social or economic factors (e.g., gender-based, race-based, or sexual identity–based discrimination, poverty, residential instability, migration, military conflict) [7–9].

Source: Journal of Adolescent Health - February 26, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Devon J. Hensel Tags: Editorial Source Type: research