Teenage Pregnancy: A Public Health Report and Policy Analysis

This report focuses on teenage pregnancy as a public health issue, examining the UK's policy interventions from 1999 to 2010. It highlights the decline in teenage pregnancy rates and discusses contentious issues such as racial differences, repeat abortions, and the relationship between age and pregnancy prevention. The report references key studies and concludes by emphasizing the importance of reducing teenage pregnancy to improve educational and career opportunities for teenagers. The report also provides a background on the UK's Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, outlining its goals and achievements, and references relevant literature that supports the findings. This analysis offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges and the impact of public health interventions in addressing teenage pregnancy.

PUBLIC HEALTH
S T U D E N T ’ S N A M E
I N S T I T U T I O N A L
A F F I L I AT I O N
P R O F E S S O R ’ S N A M E
C I T Y
D AT E

INTRODUCTION
• Teenage pregnancy is the pregnancy
in females who are below 20 years
of age (Mezey et al., 2017).
• Reducing teenage pregnancy is a
public health policy to prevent teens
unwanted pregnancies.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
• In 1999, UK Labor Government
started a 10-year Teenage Pregnancy
Policy for England.
• By 2014 the rate had declined to 22.9
per 1,000 (Hadley, Ingham and
Chandra-Mouli, 2016).

REDUCING TEENAGE
PREGNANCY
• Teenage pregnancy is a public health
problem.
• It is supported by PHE, LGA and
FPA (Hadley, Ingham and Chandra-
Mouli, 2016).

CONTENTIOUS ISSUES
• The race differences in pregnancy
prevention
• Repeat abortion
• The relationship between age and
pregnancy prevention

CONCLUSION
• Teenage pregnancy policy reduces
the limitation of education and career
prospects to teenagers.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Hadley, A., Ingham, R., and Chandra-Mouli, V., 2016. Implementing the United Kingdom's
ten-year teenage pregnancy strategy for England (1999-2010): How was this done and what
did it achieve?. Reproductive health, 13(1), p.139.
• Mezey, G., Robinson, F., Gillard, S., Mantovani, N., Meyer, D., White, S. and Bonell, C.,
2017. Tackling the problem of teenage pregnancy in looked‐after children: a peer
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R.T., Noyes, J., Ntambwe, L.I., Pasterfield, D. and Rycroft-Malone, J., 2017. Intervention
Now to Eliminate Repeat Unintended Pregnancy in Teenagers (INTERUPT): a systematic
review of intervention effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, and qualitative and realist
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