E-health: potential benefits and challenges in providing and accessing sexual health services
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eHealth has become a growing field where healthcare professionals and healthcare consumers create and search for information. E-health refers to the provision of medical care and information via the Internet, with the aim of improving healthcare at the local, regional and global levels. Online sexual health presents new opportunities to deliver sexual health services online regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation and location.
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This article uses the dimensions of the RE-AIM model (scope, efficacy, adoption, implementation, and maintenance) as a guide for eHealth in the provision and access to sexual health services. There are significant problems with the use and delivery of sexual health services online. For healthcare providers, eHealth facilitates privacy and confidentiality of communication, reduces administrative costs, and increases efficiency and flexibility in marketing sexual health services and products. Sexual health is one of the common health topics young and old look for on the internet, and they increasingly prefer interactive, non-discriminatory and non-discriminatory sexual health education. anonymous. . This review presents and discusses the benefits of sexual health and offers recommendations for addressing emerging challenges.
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E-health technologies can improve the delivery of sexual health services. This could empower consumers to use information technology to improve their sexual health knowledge and quality of life, and address some of the stigma associated with diversity in sexual behavior and sexual health experiences. Additionally, eHealth can better support and improve the relationship between consumers and their healthcare providers in different locations. However, systematic and targeted research approaches and the translation of research findings into policy and practice are critical to ensuring that eHealth reaches all populations and that information is up-to-date, clinically valid and effective (including preventive approach) is essential. Requirements
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eHealth can make a valuable contribution to improving health throughout life and around the world. According to South African social rights activist and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, “eHealth is a beacon on the horizon that can address health and equity challenges facing humanity”[1]. E-medicine refers to the provision of medical services through the Internet, which is characterized by distance from telemedicine and telemedicine. Through the use of the Internet and related technologies, eHealth aims to improve health services at local, regional and global levels [2]. It is used in the health sector for clinical, educational, preventive, research and administrative purposes, whether in-person or remotely. eHealth services comprise the “six C’s”: content, communication, commerce, community, clinical care, and computer applications [3,4].
The explosion in technology has opened up new opportunities to deliver sexual health services online, regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation and location. For example, online sexual health resources are now accessible from desktops to mobile devices, and electronic health records provide e-learning tools related to managing sexual health issues. As the Internet has also become a major part of social life, allowing people to form new relationships, share photos, watch television, and access a wealth of information [5], healthy sex online is new. . And there are often daily specials.
Currently, sexual health interventions are increasingly focused on: Internet-based sex education; STI detection, testing, and management, including partner notification through health education websites; online counseling; social networking and support for integration of sexual health services with other health services groups [6-9].
Additionally, for certain social groups, the Internet is the preferred method for consumers to obtain sexual health information, especially from peers, teachers, couples, and/or professionals.
