Highlights•Health behaviors reflect interplay between people and contextual factors.•'Social
determinants' include societal institutions, ideologies, and inequalities.•Health behaviors …

Some studies suggest lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) teens are at higher risk than peers
for violence at home, in school, and in the community. That can bring them into the child …

The transition to parenthood is a major event in the lifespan of any individual, but takes on
special significance when it precedes the transition to education, work, citizenship and …

Objective Recent increases in adolescent pregnancies have sparked a renewed impetus to
identify risk factors, such as childhood sexual abuse (CSA), associated with adolescent …

PURPOSE: Childhood and adolescent sexual abuse has been shown to lead to increased
odds of sexual behaviors that lead to sexually transmitted infections and early pregnancy …

Coercive experiences at sexual debut have been shown to be associated with other sexual
risks throughout the life course. Using nationally representative surveys from 12-19 year old …

Nwando Achebe presents the fascinating history of an Igbo woman, Ahebi Ugbabe, who
became king in colonial Nigeria. Ugbabe was exiled from Igboland, became a prostitute …

Smartphone dating applications (apps) have become popular in recent years. However, the
association between the use of dating apps and sexual abuse remains uninvestigated. The …

Over the past decade, several large-scale school-based studies of adolescents in Canada
and the US have documented health disparities for lesbian, gay and bisexual teens …

CONTEXT: Young adults have high rates of unintended childbearing and STDs, yet little
research has examined the role of relationship characteristics in their contraceptive use …