Politics and Policy in Public Health and Health Promotion

POLITICS AND POLICY
POLITICS AND POLICY IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Background......................................................................................................................................2
Policy...............................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

POLITICS AND POLICY
Introduction
Health promotion is the procedure of increasing control over health issues and ensures an
improved quality of health and hygiene of people. This essay will emphasize on Teenage
Pregnancy Policy developed by the government of the UK in order to decrease the number of
victims of teenage pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy is a current social issue of the UK as the
teenage pregnancy rate of 18.8% per 1000 women who are aged between 15-17 years. This
paper would demonstrate the effectiveness of the policy and the background of the policy. The
roles and responsibilities of the policy supporters would be discussed in the following essay.
Background
Public Health is the health condition of the whole population that needs government support and
regulation. There are several health issues in the UK, such as lung cancer due to high
consumption of tobacco, teenage pregnancy, bowel cancer, dental health; among which teenage
pregnancy has become a severe issue for the society, which is creating a negative impact of mind
and body of the teenagers. Teenage pregnancy is the situation when a girl aged 13-19 years, gets
pregnant while not having legal adulthood. As a result, the threats of medical complication of
both mother and child emerges, the teenage mothers suffer from psychological problems like a
digression, Baby blues, anxiety, and other physical disorders. For the reduction of teenage
pregnancy in the UK, the Labor Government of the UK introduced a policy to control the
teenage pregnancy rate over the next ten years (1999- 2010) (Hadley, Chandra, and Ingham,
2016). The policy has been implemented to lessen the teenage pregnancy rate by 50%. The
policy involved a few strategies Known as Teenage Pregnancy Strategy (TPS) that has
immensely worked in the areas of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (Sorhaindo, 2017) . The
ideology of the UK government was to preserve satisfactory health condition of their women and
child. The policy included several actions such as improvement of teenager’s ideas regarding
sexual relationships, face-to-face conversations with the parents and the teenagers, improving the
health care strategies and so on. The policy became successful, with the successful role-play of