John S Santelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 3856150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John S Santelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | John S |
| FAMILY NAME | Santelli |
| SIGNATURE | SANTELLI J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | John S. Santelli is with the Department of Population and Family Health and the Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY. Laura D. Lindberg is with the Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY. Stephanie A. Grilo is a PhD candidate in sociomedical sciences at Columbia University. Leslie M. Kantor is with the Department of Urban-Global Public Health, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway Township, NJ. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Psychosocial outcomes and peer influences among multiracial adolescents in the United States
Objective: To examine racial and ethnic self-identification among adolescents and explore psychosocial outcomes and peer treatment for multiracial adolescents in the United States. Methods: Data are from the 2014 Child Development Supplement, a subsample of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Data were weighted to be nationally representative. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the population and to explore family and parent demographic…
Associations between Developmental Assets and Adolescent Health Status
BACKGROUND: Developmental assets foster positive health outcomes among adolescents, but have not been studied in adolescents with chronic illness or depression, two conditions that impact behaviors in school. We examined parent-reported assets in a national sample of adolescents and compared the number and types of assets by health statuses. METHODS: Data were from the 2016 National Survey of Children's Health (N = 15,734 adolescents), which capt…
Sex is supposed to be naturally more pleasurable
Global health researchers often approach Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine (TCAM) from a health efficacy perspective, asking whether the presence of plural medical systems helps or hinders the uptake of biomedicine. Medical anthropologists, by contrast, typically emphasize how plural medical systems encourage us to rethink health ontologies-that is, who and what comes to constitute the experience of health and illness, and thro…
When Coffee Collapsed
In some Ugandan fishing communities, almost half the population lives with HIV. Researchers designate these communities "HIV hotspots" and attribute disproportionate disease burdens to "sex-for-fish" relationships endemic to the lakeshores. In this article, we trace the emergence of Uganda's HIV hotspots to structural adjustment. We show how global economic policies negotiated in the 1990s precipitated the collapse of Uganda's coffee sector, caus…
Ideology or Evidence? Examining the Population-Level Impact of US Government Funding to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy
"Ideology or Evidence? Examining the Population-Level Impact of US Government Funding to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy." , 109(3), pp. 356–357
Contraceptive knowledge, perceptions, and concerns among men in Uganda
Overall, we found limited accurate knowledge about contraceptive methods among men in Uganda. Moreover, fears about the side effects of modern contraceptive methods appeared to be common among men. Family planning services in Uganda could be significantly strengthened by renewed efforts to focus on men's knowledge, fears, and misconceptions
Our future
Importance of Relationship Context in HIV Transmission
We present results from life history interviews with 60 young adults from southern Uganda. Using a novel qualitative case-control design, we compared newly HIV-positive cases with HIV-negative controls matched on age, gender, marital status, and place of residence. Relationship context was the most salient theme differentiating cases from controls. Compared with HIV-negative respondents, recent seroconverters described relationships marked by poo…
Invited Commentary
Scientific research has made major contributions to adolescent health by providing insights into factors that influence it and by defining ways to improve it. However, US adolescent sexual and reproductive health policies-particularly sexuality health education policies and programs-have not benefited from the full scope of scientific understanding. From 1998 to 2009, federal funding for sexuality education focused almost exclusively on ineffecti…
Toward a Multidimensional Measure of Pregnancy Intentions
Widely used dichotomous categorical measures of pregnancy intentions do not represent well the complexity of factors involved in women's intentions. We used a variety of exploratory statistical methods to examine measures of pregnancy intention in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (N = 3,032 pregnancies). Factor analyses identified two key dimensions of pregnancy intentions (desire and mistiming) and two smaller nondimensional categories …
Medical Accuracy in Sexuality Education
Recently, many states have implemented requirements for scientific or medical accuracy in sexuality education and HIV prevention programs. Although seemingly uncontroversial, these requirements respond to the increasing injection of ideology into sexuality education, as represented by abstinence-only programs. I describe the process by which health professionals and government advisory groups within the United States reach scientific consensus an…
Explaining Recent Declines in Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States
Objectives. We explored the relative contributions of declining sexual activity and improved contraceptive use to the recent decline in adolescent pregnancy rates in the United States. Methods. We used data from 1995 and 2002 for women 15 to 19 years of age to develop 2 indexes: the contraceptive risk index, summarizing the overall effectiveness of contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents (including nonuse), and the overall pregnancy r…
Santelli Et Al. Respond
We thank Mann and Stine for their interest in our recent article. We examined data on sexual activity and contraceptive use from the National Survey on Family Growth (NSFG) and found that most of the declines in US adolescent pregnancy from 1995 to 2002 could be attributed to improved contraceptive use: for 77% of the decline among those aged 15-17 years and for all of the decline among those aged 18-19 years. The methodological improvement in ca…
Abstinence-Only Education
John S. Santelli Abstinence-Only Education: Politics, Science, and Ethics INTRODUCTION UNTIL AUGUST 2 0 0 4 , 1W ORKED ATTHE US CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL and Prevention (CDC) as a researcher on adolescent health issues, an Institutional Review Board chairm an, and a supervisor of other public health scientists.* This opportunity to do im portant public health research in a supportive, collaborative environm ent was a trem endous personal experi…
Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Unintended Pregnancy Among Postpartum Women in California
Multiple Sexual Partners Among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults
CONTEXT: Because many teenagers and young adults fail to use condoms correctly and consistently, the number of sexual partners they have is an important risk factor for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. Identifying factors that are associated with having multiple partners can help in the design of disease interventions. METHODS: Data on 8,450 males and females aged 14-22 who participated in the 1992 Youth Risk Behavior Survey were use…
Toward a Multidimensional Measure of Pregnancy Intentions
Widely used dichotomous categorical measures of pregnancy intentions do not represent well the complexity of factors involved in women's intentions. We used a variety of exploratory statistical methods to examine measures of pregnancy intention in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (N = 3,032 pregnancies). Factor analyses identified two key dimensions of pregnancy intentions (desire and mistiming) and two smaller nondimensional categories …
Explaining Recent Declines in Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States
Objectives. We explored the relative contributions of declining sexual activity and improved contraceptive use to the recent decline in adolescent pregnancy rates in the United States. Methods. We used data from 1995 and 2002 for women 15 to 19 years of age to develop 2 indexes: the contraceptive risk index, summarizing the overall effectiveness of contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents (including nonuse), and the overall pregnancy r…
Invited Commentary
Scientific research has made major contributions to adolescent health by providing insights into factors that influence it and by defining ways to improve it. However, US adolescent sexual and reproductive health policies-particularly sexuality health education policies and programs-have not benefited from the full scope of scientific understanding. From 1998 to 2009, federal funding for sexuality education focused almost exclusively on ineffecti…
Medical Accuracy in Sexuality Education
Recently, many states have implemented requirements for scientific or medical accuracy in sexuality education and HIV prevention programs. Although seemingly uncontroversial, these requirements respond to the increasing injection of ideology into sexuality education, as represented by abstinence-only programs. I describe the process by which health professionals and government advisory groups within the United States reach scientific consensus an…
Abstinence-Only Education
John S. Santelli Abstinence-Only Education: Politics, Science, and Ethics INTRODUCTION UNTIL AUGUST 2 0 0 4 , 1W ORKED ATTHE US CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL and Prevention (CDC) as a researcher on adolescent health issues, an Institutional Review Board chairm an, and a supervisor of other public health scientists.* This opportunity to do im portant public health research in a supportive, collaborative environm ent was a trem endous personal experi…
Ideology or Evidence? Examining the Population-Level Impact of US Government Funding to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy
"Ideology or Evidence? Examining the Population-Level Impact of US Government Funding to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy." , 109(3), pp. 356–357
Importance of Relationship Context in HIV Transmission
We present results from life history interviews with 60 young adults from southern Uganda. Using a novel qualitative case-control design, we compared newly HIV-positive cases with HIV-negative controls matched on age, gender, marital status, and place of residence. Relationship context was the most salient theme differentiating cases from controls. Compared with HIV-negative respondents, recent seroconverters described relationships marked by poo…
Multiple Sexual Partners Among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults
CONTEXT: Because many teenagers and young adults fail to use condoms correctly and consistently, the number of sexual partners they have is an important risk factor for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. Identifying factors that are associated with having multiple partners can help in the design of disease interventions. METHODS: Data on 8,450 males and females aged 14-22 who participated in the 1992 Youth Risk Behavior Survey were use…
Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Unintended Pregnancy Among Postpartum Women in California
Abstinence-Only Education
John S. Santelli Abstinence-Only Education: Politics, Science, and Ethics INTRODUCTION UNTIL AUGUST 2 0 0 4 , 1W ORKED ATTHE US CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL and Prevention (CDC) as a researcher on adolescent health issues, an Institutional Review Board chairm an, and a supervisor of other public health scientists.* This opportunity to do im portant public health research in a supportive, collaborative environm ent was a trem endous personal experi…
Explaining Recent Declines in Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States
Objectives. We explored the relative contributions of declining sexual activity and improved contraceptive use to the recent decline in adolescent pregnancy rates in the United States. Methods. We used data from 1995 and 2002 for women 15 to 19 years of age to develop 2 indexes: the contraceptive risk index, summarizing the overall effectiveness of contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents (including nonuse), and the overall pregnancy r…
Santelli Et Al. Respond
We thank Mann and Stine for their interest in our recent article. We examined data on sexual activity and contraceptive use from the National Survey on Family Growth (NSFG) and found that most of the declines in US adolescent pregnancy from 1995 to 2002 could be attributed to improved contraceptive use: for 77% of the decline among those aged 15-17 years and for all of the decline among those aged 18-19 years. The methodological improvement in ca…
Medical Accuracy in Sexuality Education
Recently, many states have implemented requirements for scientific or medical accuracy in sexuality education and HIV prevention programs. Although seemingly uncontroversial, these requirements respond to the increasing injection of ideology into sexuality education, as represented by abstinence-only programs. I describe the process by which health professionals and government advisory groups within the United States reach scientific consensus an…
Toward a Multidimensional Measure of Pregnancy Intentions
Widely used dichotomous categorical measures of pregnancy intentions do not represent well the complexity of factors involved in women's intentions. We used a variety of exploratory statistical methods to examine measures of pregnancy intention in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (N = 3,032 pregnancies). Factor analyses identified two key dimensions of pregnancy intentions (desire and mistiming) and two smaller nondimensional categories …
Importance of Relationship Context in HIV Transmission
We present results from life history interviews with 60 young adults from southern Uganda. Using a novel qualitative case-control design, we compared newly HIV-positive cases with HIV-negative controls matched on age, gender, marital status, and place of residence. Relationship context was the most salient theme differentiating cases from controls. Compared with HIV-negative respondents, recent seroconverters described relationships marked by poo…
Invited Commentary
Scientific research has made major contributions to adolescent health by providing insights into factors that influence it and by defining ways to improve it. However, US adolescent sexual and reproductive health policies-particularly sexuality health education policies and programs-have not benefited from the full scope of scientific understanding. From 1998 to 2009, federal funding for sexuality education focused almost exclusively on ineffecti…
Our future
Contraceptive knowledge, perceptions, and concerns among men in Uganda
Overall, we found limited accurate knowledge about contraceptive methods among men in Uganda. Moreover, fears about the side effects of modern contraceptive methods appeared to be common among men. Family planning services in Uganda could be significantly strengthened by renewed efforts to focus on men's knowledge, fears, and misconceptions
Ideology or Evidence? Examining the Population-Level Impact of US Government Funding to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy
"Ideology or Evidence? Examining the Population-Level Impact of US Government Funding to Prevent Adolescent Pregnancy." , 109(3), pp. 356–357
Associations between Developmental Assets and Adolescent Health Status
BACKGROUND: Developmental assets foster positive health outcomes among adolescents, but have not been studied in adolescents with chronic illness or depression, two conditions that impact behaviors in school. We examined parent-reported assets in a national sample of adolescents and compared the number and types of assets by health statuses. METHODS: Data were from the 2016 National Survey of Children's Health (N = 15,734 adolescents), which capt…
Sex is supposed to be naturally more pleasurable
Global health researchers often approach Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine (TCAM) from a health efficacy perspective, asking whether the presence of plural medical systems helps or hinders the uptake of biomedicine. Medical anthropologists, by contrast, typically emphasize how plural medical systems encourage us to rethink health ontologies-that is, who and what comes to constitute the experience of health and illness, and thro…
When Coffee Collapsed
In some Ugandan fishing communities, almost half the population lives with HIV. Researchers designate these communities "HIV hotspots" and attribute disproportionate disease burdens to "sex-for-fish" relationships endemic to the lakeshores. In this article, we trace the emergence of Uganda's HIV hotspots to structural adjustment. We show how global economic policies negotiated in the 1990s precipitated the collapse of Uganda's coffee sector, caus…
Psychosocial outcomes and peer influences among multiracial adolescents in the United States
Objective: To examine racial and ethnic self-identification among adolescents and explore psychosocial outcomes and peer treatment for multiracial adolescents in the United States. Methods: Data are from the 2014 Child Development Supplement, a subsample of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Data were weighted to be nationally representative. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the population and to explore family and parent demographic…
Medicine (14 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (11 works) · Population (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Family planning (6 works)