Sexual Health
Use this guide to find information resources about sexual health including books, reports and journal articles.
Last updated:
16/05/2024
Key Resources
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RCN: Sexual Health education directory
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This resource highlights training and qualification requirements for registered nurses, midwives, health advisers and nursing associates as well as unregistered health care support staff working in sexual health.
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RCN: Sexual health career stories and case studies
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This selection of career stories, from nurses working across the UK and in a variety of organisations, demonstrate the various routes that senior nurses have taken to develop into the specialty and show the breadth of services providing sexual health care.
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Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (2021) HIV: migrant health guide. London: OHID.
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (2021) Sexually transmitted infections (STIs): migrant health guide. London: OHID.
Public Health England (2021) Promoting the sexual health and wellbeing of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. London: PHE.
Public Health England (2021) Promoting the sexual health and wellbeing of people from a Black Caribbean background: an evidence-based resource. London: PHE.
Department of Health (2013) A framework for sexual health improvement in England. London: DoH.
Books
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![Jarnagin Working with Infertility and Grief Book Cover](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Books-140x200/Sexual-health/Jarnagin-Working-with-Infertility.jpg?h=210&w=140&la=en&hash=A9C00898ED5EA17CECD93E3DC228167A)
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![Book cover](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Books-140x200/Sexual-health/Everett-Handbook-of-contraception.jpg?h=200&w=128&la=en&hash=F65C7D4CBED82D5BAF4F63FED505B071)
![Book cover](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Books-140x200/Sexual-health/Guillebaud-contraception-today-9th.jpg?h=200&w=133&la=en&hash=BEBAEB09CE09214321B076DCEF6473E3)
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![Book cover](https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/-/media/Royal-College-Of-Nursing/Images/Books-140x200/Sexual-health/Rugoho-sexual-and-reproductive.jpg?h=197&w=140&la=en&hash=D11B1479D79D3E0DD9105F11105EA989)
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Book subject searches
Use these links to see details of books the RCN libraries hold on each topic.
Journal articles
Use these links for details of journal articles on each topic.
Journals
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Caroline Lynch
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RCN Library and Museum
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Page last updated - 16/05/2024