TAILIEUCHUNG - A POSITION PAPER FROM THE CENTER FOR INQUIRY OFFICE OF PUBLIC POLICY

Thus, there will be competencies that reflect general public health competencies (common across the degree program) and a complementary set of competencies that are specific to the track, concentration or specialization. For example, if an institution offers the MPH with seven distinct tracks, it would have a set of competencies common for all MPH students, and, in addition, each of the seven tracks would have its own set of track-specific competencies. Before a degree is awarded, students should demonstrate the attainment of overall MPH competencies, as well as the competencies specified for the student’s particular. | THE IMPORTANCE OF APPROPRIATE SEXUALITY EDUCATION A POSITION PAPER FROM THE CENTER FOR INQUIRY OFFICE OF PUBLIC POLiCy AUTHORS GWEN BREWER . MARGARET B. BROWN . MICHAEL J. MIGDAL . REVIEWING COMMITTEE PAUL KURTZ . RONALD A. LINDSAY . . TONI VAN PELT DATED JUNE 2007 CENTER FOR INQUIRY Washington . Copyright 2007 Center for Inquiry Inc. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for noncommercial educational purposes provided that this notice appears on the reproduced materials the full authoritative version is retained and copies are not altered. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the Center for Inquiry Inc. THE IMPORTANCE OF APPROPRIATE SEXUALITY EDUCATION Public Support for Sexuality Education School programs about human sexuality have evolved in response to concerns about high rates of teen pregnancy and increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections STIs including HIV AIDS. Compared to teens in other industrialized countries American teens aged 15-19 have the highest pregnancy rate Meschke Bartholomae Zentall 2002 . Currently in the United States more than 800 000 females under age twenty become pregnant each year Eighty percent of those are unintended pregnancies Henshaw 2004 . Although teens and young adults 15-24 years of age comprise only one quarter of the sexually active population of individuals under 44 Abma Chandra Mosher Peterson Piccinino 1997 Laumann Gagnon Michael Michaels 1995 Sonenstein Ku Lindberg Turner Pleck 1998 they acquire nearly one half of all new STIs Weinstock Berman Cates 2004 . This translates to about million young people in this age group acquiring STIs Guttmacher Institute 2006 . As a group adolescents are at greatest risk for many STIs. In fact more than half of HIV infections acquired after infancy occur during adolescence Centers for Disease Control 2004 Meschke et al. 2002 . The majority of parents health professionals and the public agree that .

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