Promoting the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents
Annotated bibliography of young people's sexual and reproductive health
Introduction
This bibliography is intended to provide a guide to up-to-date and relevant literature on young people’s sexual and reproductive health for investigators undertaking research in less developed countries. The original version covered publications up to the end of 1999 and the present updated version incorporates literature up to the end of 2001.
The following search strategies were used to compile and update the bibliography:
- Electronic searches of BIDS, Health Star, Medline, and Popline databases
- Electronic searches of the internet
- "Hand" searches of the following internet sites: Advocates for Youth, Alan Guttmacher Institute, CEDPA, CRLP, Engender Health, Harvard Law Review, International Women’s Health Coalition, Ipas, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Pathfinder FOCUS on Young Adults, Population Council, Population Reference Bureau, Reproductive Health Outlook, Siecus, UNAIDS, United Nations, Women’s Commission, Refugee Studies Centre, Safe Passages to Adulthood, UNAIDS, UN Development Programme, UNHCR, World Health Organization
- Hand searches of the following journals: African Journal of Reproductive Health, AIDS Bulletin, AIDS Captions, AIDS Care, Annual Review of Sex Research, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Critical Public Health, Culture Health and Sexuality, Family Planning Perspectives, Forced Migration Review, Health Policy and Planning, Health Transition Review, International Family Planning Perspectives, International Journal of STD and AIDS, Journal of Adolescent Health, Journal of Refugee Studies, Journal of Sex Research, Network, Population Reports, Population and Demographic Review, Reproductive Health Matters, Social Science and Medicine, Studies in Family Planning
- Hand and electronic searches of the following libraries: International Planned Parenthood Federation, London; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (main library and Centre for Population Studies); Southampton University Centre for Sexual Health Research; University College, London.
- Informal consultation with international experts in the field of sexual and reproductive health research on young people.
Since the first version of this bibliography was compiled, many documents have become available on the internet. Where this is the case, the relevant address is listed with the abstract.
This bibliography does not provide an exhaustive list of documents: rather it seeks to present selected highlights of the literature in English that is now available to researchers in this field. Three main areas are covered: substantive findings of research and theoretical developments, research design and methods, and questionnaires.