INFLUENCE OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIORS AMONG WOMEN IN GUYANA

Background: Lack of access to resources of development position Guyanese women vulnerable in economic and education contexts. Evidence suggests, socioeconomic status directly influences health outcomes. The available research surrounding the influences of sexual health behavior of women is limited and inconclusive. Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the extent education and household wealth influences birth control use and engaging with multiple partners. Also, how those socioeconomic influences transform when age, relationship status, and residence type are considered in the models. Methods: The Demographic Health Survey for Guyana from 2009 was used to conduct a quantitative study. Participants were women between the ages of 15 and 49 years old (n = 4,996). Chi-square for independence and logistic regression analyses were performed to explore the associations and odds of education and household wealth in relationship to birth control use and engaging with multiple partners. Multiple models were run in order to see what changes occurred when controlling for specific demographic variables. Results and Discussion: Socioeconomic factors were generally associated with risky sexual behavior but no conclusive statements can be made about the direction of socioeconomic status and risky sexual behavior’s relationship. Sequential changes among variable categories were not consistent outside of the relationship of wealth and engaging with multiple partners. As socioeconomic status increased, the odds of engaging in risky sexual behavior increased when controlling for age, relationship status, and residence type. Various factors can explain this adverse behavior including, but not limited to, upward mobility, education quality, and gender inequity. Conclusion: The results of this study were inconclusive but generally showed trends of increased risky sexual behaviors as socioeconomic status increased with noteworthy influence from control variables; age, relationship status, and residence type. The findings of this study highlight the necessity for further research of sexual behavior for the field of health promotion.GLODE36

Art and Innovation at International Health Promotion Conferences

Scientific conferences are a constant fixture in most academic and professional fields. While conferences began in the mid-1800s as a platform for the exchange of ideas, in reality, the majority of scientific conferences follow a predictable, didactic format that is aligned with Northern/Western conceptions of learning and knowledge hierarchy. Area ?experts? are provided a platform to share their knowledge, and the audience is thought of as empty vessels receiving deposits of this knowledge. Rarely is this model brought into question. This chapter describes conference sessions organized by the Student and Early Career Network of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education that turned this model upside down and used art as a means to dialogue and exchange with participants on important health promotion topics. In this chapter, we demonstrate how these sessions stimulated engagement and exchange while seeking to honor multiple voices and ways of knowing.Fil: Ayele, Christa. International Union for Health Promotion and Education’s Student and Early Career Network; Estados UnidosFil: Corbin, J. Hope. Western Washington University.; Estados UnidosFil: Alden Hennessy, Emily. University of Connecticut; Estados UnidosFil: Sanmartino, Mariana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Física de Líquidos y Sistemas Biológicos. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Física de Líquidos y Sistemas Biológicos; ArgentinaFil: Bjørnøy Urke, Helga. University of Bergen; Norueg

Re-envisioning health promotion: Thinking and acting salutogenically towards equity for historically resilient communities

This paper explores how the salutogenic theory can enable us to re-envision health promotion work with marginalized communities, towards an approach that acknowledges and honours their resilience. We use the three core concepts in Antonovsky’s salutogenic model of health – sense of coherence, generalized resistance resources and specific resistance resources – to explore the theory’s relevance to health equity, thus presenting new opportunities for how we might radically re-evaluate current health promotion approaches. We conclude that a more equitable health promotion requires increased participation of marginalized communities in shaping their futures and suggest a new model for historically grounded salutogenic health promotion.publishedVersio

Black Lives Matter in health promotion: moving from unspoken to outspoken

Racism is a public health crisis. Black communities (including Africans, the African diaspora and people of African descent) experience worse health outcomes as demonstrated by almost any measure of health and wellbeing—e.g. life expectancy; disease prevalence; maternal mortality rates. While health promotion has its foundation in promoting equity and social justice, it is clear that however well-intended, we are not affecting meaningful change for Black communities quickly enough. Through this article, we outline the intersection of social determinants of health and anti-Black racism. We describe how in the first 8 months of 2020 Black communities around the globe have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, while also having to respond to new instances of police brutality. We assert that the time has come for health promotion to stop neutralizing the specific needs of Black communities into unspoken ‘good intentions’. Instead, we offer some concrete ways for the field to become outspoken, intentional and honest in acknowledging what it will take to radically shift how we promote health and wellbeing for Black people.publishedVersio

Art and Innovation at International Health Promotion Conferences

Scientific conferences are a constant fixture in most academic and professional fields. While conferences began in the mid-1800s as a platform for the exchange of ideas, in reality, the majority of scientific conferences follow a predictable, didactic format that is aligned with Northern/Western conceptions of learning and knowledge hierarchy. Area ?experts? are provided a platform to share their knowledge, and the audience is thought of as empty vessels receiving deposits of this knowledge. Rarely is this model brought into question. This chapter describes conference sessions organized by the Student and Early Career Network of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education that turned this model upside down and used art as a means to dialogue and exchange with participants on important health promotion topics. In this chapter, we demonstrate how these sessions stimulated engagement and exchange while seeking to honor multiple voices and ways of knowing.Instituto de Física de Líquidos y Sistemas Biológico

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

INFLUENCE OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIORS AMONG WOMEN IN GUYANA

Background: Lack of access to resources of development position Guyanese women vulnerable in economic and education contexts. Evidence suggests, socioeconomic status directly influences health outcomes. The available research surrounding the influences of sexual health behavior of women is limited and inconclusive. Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the extent education and household wealth influences birth control use and engaging with multiple partners. Also, how those socioeconomic influences transform when age, relationship status, and residence type are considered in the models. Methods: The Demographic Health Survey for Guyana from 2009 was used to conduct a quantitative study. Participants were women between the ages of 15 and 49 years old (n = 4,996). Chi-square for independence and logistic regression analyses were performed to explore the associations and odds of education and household wealth in relationship to birth control use and engaging with multiple partners. Multiple models were run in order to see what changes occurred when controlling for specific demographic variables. Results and Discussion: Socioeconomic factors were generally associated with risky sexual behavior but no conclusive statements can be made about the direction of socioeconomic status and risky sexual behavior’s relationship. Sequential changes among variable categories were not consistent outside of the relationship of wealth and engaging with multiple partners. As socioeconomic status increased, the odds of engaging in risky sexual behavior increased when controlling for age, relationship status, and residence type. Various factors can explain this adverse behavior including, but not limited to, upward mobility, education quality, and gender inequity. Conclusion: The results of this study were inconclusive but generally showed trends of increased risky sexual behaviors as socioeconomic status increased with noteworthy influence from control variables; age, relationship status, and residence type. The findings of this study highlight the necessity for further research of sexual behavior for the field of health promotion

Black Lives Matter in health promotion: moving from unspoken to outspoken

Racism is a public health crisis. Black communities (including Africans, the African diaspora and people of African descent) experience worse health outcomes as demonstrated by almost any measure of health and wellbeing—e.g. life expectancy; disease prevalence; maternal mortality rates. While health promotion has its foundation in promoting equity and social justice, it is clear that however well-intended, we are not affecting meaningful change for Black communities quickly enough. Through this article, we outline the intersection of social determinants of health and anti-Black racism. We describe how in the first 8 months of 2020 Black communities around the globe have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, while also having to respond to new instances of police brutality. We assert that the time has come for health promotion to stop neutralizing the specific needs of Black communities into unspoken ‘good intentions’. Instead, we offer some concrete ways for the field to become outspoken, intentional and honest in acknowledging what it will take to radically shift how we promote health and wellbeing for Black people

Re-envisioning health promotion: Thinking and acting salutogenically towards equity for historically resilient communities

This paper explores how the salutogenic theory can enable us to re-envision health promotion work with marginalized communities, towards an approach that acknowledges and honours their resilience. We use the three core concepts in Antonovsky’s salutogenic model of health – sense of coherence, generalized resistance resources and specific resistance resources – to explore the theory’s relevance to health equity, thus presenting new opportunities for how we might radically re-evaluate current health promotion approaches. We conclude that a more equitable health promotion requires increased participation of marginalized communities in shaping their futures and suggest a new model for historically grounded salutogenic health promotion