Contemporary Policy Related to Health Promotion or Public Health

CONTEMPORARY POLICY
RELATED TO HEALTH
PROMOTION OR PUBLIC
HEALTH

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Back ground information on Teenager pregnancy strategy.........................................................3
Policy description.........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Contemporary policy related to health promotion and public health is developed to deal
with current issues that impact on welfare of society as well as human live. The present report is
based on teenage pregnancy issue that affect younger girl and boy in which they deal with many
mental and physical disease (Hadley, Chandra-Mouli and Ingham, 2016). It explains the teenage
pregnancy strategy governed by UK Labour government to reduce the rate of adolescent
parenthood. It justifies the strategy impact on society and health services staff and also clarifies
the role of strategy in health care sector.
Back ground information on Teenager pregnancy strategy
Public health is defined as science of improving health and protecting safety of
communities through, policy making, education and research for injury and disease prevention.
In simple words, public health has been described as preventing disease, promoting health of
human and prolonging life of people through organized efforts. In order to improve and prevent
health of teenagers UK labour government launched teenage pregnancy strategy that helps to
reduce teenage pregnancies because it effects on society the most.
Policy description
Teenage pregnancy is public health issue-
Teenager pregnancy is the one of the most important issues for many reasons, it is
essential public health problem, associated and largely preventable with negative sequelae both
for children and younger who become pregnant between the age of 14 to 20. World health
organization estimated that every year 21 million younger girls between at 15 to 19 become
pregnant, they cannot be able to give birth to health baby, which affects on growth and healthy
life of child. During child birth many girls were died, adolescent mothers face greater risks of
puerperal endometriosis, eclampsia and systematic infection that women aged 20 to 23 year and
its also affects on babies born to teenager mother in which they face higher risk of less birth
weight (Cook and Cameron, 2015). The rate of teenage pregnancy is higher, that affects on its
growth and well-being, it is considered as global problem that occur in low, middle and high
income nations such as UK. Around the globe, this issue is mostly occurred in marginalized
societies, commonly drive by lack of education, employment opportunities and poverty. To
reduce the major issue that is adolescent pregnancy UK government take serious action towards
this activity, they develop teenage pregnancy policy with four themes that support to reduce the