In the fall, the NCSH's Health Care Action Group released "Sexual Health and Your Patients: A Provider's Guide" to help providers in primary care and other settings better integrate sexual health conversations and related preventive sexual health services into routine adolescent and adult visits. It features tables and charts to help providers easily find key information, and was pre-tested with primary care providers.   

By using this guide, providers can:  

*    Streamline their sexual history-taking by asking a few essential questions   

*    Increase their delivery of recommended preventive sexual health services 

*    Improve care for LGBT patients 

*    Be better prepared to discuss sexual health topics and answer patient questions 

*    Become more knowledgeable about sexual health

Providers can do much to improve sexual health in the United States. Please share this resource with health care providers you know and/or work with.