Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

3 Credits.

Explores key topics in adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH). Includes topics ranging from the impact of adolescent physical, sexual, and social development on sexual risk-taking behavior to policy and ethical issues influencing adolescent sexual health outcomes. Discusses important clinical topics such as contraception, teen pregnancy, abortion, and sexually transmitted infections using a public health framework from a domestic and global perspective. Explores the role of key social determinants of health and their intersectional functionality in shaping the context through which sexual and reproductive health is operationalized in an effort to develop effective public health solutions to problems facing vulnerable youth.