21 Feb Scientific Highlight – 16th ESC Congress
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in General
Evert Ketting, the Netherlands
Senior Fellow, Guttmacher Institute. International specialist in sexuality education, adolescent SRHR, family planning, abortion, and related subjects. He is a member of the European Expert Group on Sexuality Education, organized by BZgA (Germany) and WHO Europe. He worked in >20 countries.
Comprehensiveness of sexuality education in Europe and its adolescent SRH correlates: outcomes of an assessment in Europe and Central Asia
Background: This paper is based on a study on school sexuality education in the WHO European Region (Ketting and Ivanova 2018), conducted by the German Federal Health Education Centre, BZgA, and the European Network of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, IPPF EN.
Purposes:
1) to assess what comprehensive SE (CSE) means in practice in this region, and
2) to assess to what extent CSE correlates with core indicators of adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
Materials and methods: Written interviews with 25 representatives of (SRH) NGOs and 17 staff members of Ministries of Education or Health. Two countries were excluded from this analysis.
Results: Nine out of 23 countries have comprehensive SE programmes; 10 have non-comprehensive ones and 4 don’t have SE programmes. Countries with comprehensive programmes have (much) better scores on adolescent SRH indicators.
Discussion: CSE programmes include, compared to other ones, a wider range of teaching subjects, that are not only medical-technical. Students of CSE programmes are much more satisfied than other students.
Background: This paper is based on a study on school sexuality education in the WHO European Region (Ketting and Ivanova 2018), conducted by the German Federal Health Education Centre, BZgA, and the European Network of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, IPPF EN.
Purposes:
1) to assess what comprehensive SE (CSE) means in practice in this region, and
2) to assess to what extent CSE correlates with core indicators of adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
Materials and methods: Written interviews with 25 representatives of (SRH) NGOs and 17 staff members of Ministries of Education or Health. Two countries were excluded from this analysis.
Results: Nine out of 23 countries have comprehensive SE programmes; 10 have non-comprehensive ones and 4 don’t have SE programmes. Countries with comprehensive programmes have (much) better scores on adolescent SRH indicators.
Discussion: CSE programmes include, compared to other ones, a wider range of teaching subjects, that are not only medical-technical. Students of CSE programmes are much more satisfied than other students.