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Teenage pregnancy and sexual health
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Community Practitioner
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March 1, 2002
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SEXUAL HEALTH
The overriding consensus is that the trend in teenage pregnancy highlights a problem of socioeconomic deprivation. This remains a key factor, both for understanding and tackling the issue4
`Better prevention' is one of the categories that constitutes the cross government Teenage Pregnancy Strategy. Here, school nurse VIV CROUCH considers `better prevention' and the issues surrounding the on-going debate about confidentiality, emergency contraception, Sex and Relationships Education and the role the school nurse might play
In June 1999, the government launched the Social Exclusion Unit report on teenage pregnancy.1 Teenage pregnancy rates have been a concern for UK ...