What is sexual wellbeing and why does it matter for public health?

dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Kirstin R.
dc.contributor.authorLewis, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorO'Sullivan, Lucia F.
dc.contributor.authorFortenberry, J. Dennis
dc.contributor.departmentPediatrics, School of Medicineen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-03T21:08:02Z
dc.date.available2023-03-03T21:08:02Z
dc.date.issued2021-08
dc.description.abstractSexual health has provided a guiding framework for addressing sexuality in public health for several decades. Although the WHO definition of sexual health is revolutionary in acknowledging positive sexuality, public health approaches remain focused on risk and adverse outcomes. The long-standing conflation of sexual health and sexual wellbeing has affected our ability to address everyday sexual issues. This Viewpoint provides a way forward to resolve this impasse. We propose sexual wellbeing as a distinct and revolutionary concept that can be operationalised as a seven-domain model. We situate sexual wellbeing alongside sexual health, sexual justice, and sexual pleasure as one of four pillars of public health enquiry. We argue that sexual wellbeing is imperative to public health as a marker of health equity, a meaningful population indicator of wellbeing, a means to capture population trends distinct from sexual health, and an opportunity to refocus the ethics, form, and practices of public health.en_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.identifier.citationMitchell, K. R., Lewis, R., O’Sullivan, L. F., & Fortenberry, J. D. (2021). What is sexual wellbeing and why does it matter for public health? The Lancet. Public Health, 6(8), e608–e613. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00099-2en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/31614
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00099-2en_US
dc.relation.journalThe Lancet. Public Healthen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0*
dc.sourcePublisheren_US
dc.subjectsexual healthen_US
dc.subjectpublic healthen_US
dc.subjectsexual wellbeingen_US
dc.titleWhat is sexual wellbeing and why does it matter for public health?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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