STDs and Partner Notification: A Review of the Literature and Proposals for Future Research

The research paper titled “STDs and Partner Notification: A Review of the Literature and Proposals for Future Research”, written by Laura Hood, focuses on the issues of sexually transmitted diseases and specifically partner notification. Partner notification is one of many different tools used by health officials in order to control the increase of sexually transmitted diseases.
In the research paper, partner notification was defined as the process by which a sex partner or a needle-sharing partner of a person known to have a sexually transmitted disease is informed of their exposure to the sexually transmitted disease and encouraged to seek medical evaluation (Macke and Maher, 1999). Laura focused on three main partner notification issues that were prevalent among the literature that she reviewed: methods us...