Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy

Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy
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Teenage pregnancy has been marked as a high priority conundrum by the US health practitioners. This is because this vice traverses many aspects of life starting from cultural, to social, to political, to economic, to emotional, and to physical aspects. A report by CDC shows that three out of ten teenage girls in America are likely to get pregnant at least once before the age of 20. A separate report done by the NCPTUP (National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unwanted Pregnancy) points out that virtually 48 percent of all students in high school have had sexADDIN CSL_CITATION {“citationItems”:[{“id”:”ITEM-1″,”itemData”:{“DOI”:”10.1016/j.ogrm.2011.03.001″,”ISBN”:”1751-7214″,”ISSN”:”17517214″,”abstract”:”Teenage pregnancy (TP) rates in the UK are high, and are associated with high levels of socio-medical morbidity. Correspondingly, in the UK, teenage pregnancies are considered undesirable, but this is not the case in many non-European cultures. Recent education and enhanced contraception services are initiatives which have met with variable success. In this summary, we discuss these, and the welcome recognition of other contributing factors, such as poverty; unless such contributing factors are addressed, any prevention initiatives are threatened. The gynaecologist should be constantly prepared to consider the issue in any young woman.”,”author”:[{“dropping-particle”:””,”family”:”Baird”,”given”:”Aisling…