Health and Medicine

Online learning is one of the biggest adjustments we’ve had to make due to COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to sheltering in the home for "safety" but what if you don't feel safe in your home? This forum discusses intimate partner violence and the challenges that have emerged related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Panelists from the USA, New Zealand, and the UK discuss issues of domestic violence in their prospective countries, ways in which this is being addressed, and how we can promote safety during this time. This forum ends with a Q&A session with the audience.

The fourth WONCA COVID-19 webinar focuses on Family Violence. Not only have some of the risk factors greatly increased by the lockdown, economic crisis, and social isolation, but also the availability of specialized services and ways of accessing them have changed significantly. The aims of the webinar are to give an overview of family violence highlighting aspects related to the pandemic and offer practical tools useful to family doctors in daily practice, as well as in the current situation.

February 23, 2021 - 11:00 AM Pacific Time (2:00 PM Eastern Time)

In this episode of our Sex Ed series, we discuss a curriculum that helps young people think critically about pornography.

December 16, 2020 - 11:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time)

In this episode, learn about using social media to teach healthy sexuality and why it's critical for sex ed to be inclusive.

This annotated bibliography explores research published between 2016 and 2019 on social determinants of health as they relate to sexual victimization.

Publish Date

March 2020