Sentences with phrase «teenage pregnancy among»

Risk factors for teenage pregnancy among sexually active black adolescents in Cape Town.

The situation has also led to increasing social vices such as robbery stealing, rape, teenage pregnancies among others.

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Britain has the highest rates in Europe of teenage pregnancy, venereal diseases among the young, and abortions of the young.

The UK has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in Western Europe, children born to teen mums are among the most vulnerable of all children — and in African Caribbean cultures, early pregnancy is still very common.

The indicators used for the rankings were child marriage, maternal mortality, teenage pregnancy, women's representation in parliament and the rate of completion of lower - secondary school among girls.

In the US, teenage pregnancies are soaring and the mortality rate among babies born to young girls is higher in some cities than in parts of the developing world.

The results show that the increase of crime among adults and clubs teenage pregnancies, abortions and teenage rates of STDs (sexually transmitted diseases), teen runs away from home, add the alcohol and drugs, and the guys jealous that tolerate gunfire instead of a severe loss of life.

Recent studies have suggested that the practice confers all manner of mental and emotional benefits for kids: less depression and anxiety, lower rates of stress, and lower rates of substance abuse and teenage pregnancy, among others.

From the study «about reproductive right and infringe among teen woman from situation of reproductive right among teenage woman in Thailand project» are making the database reproductive rights situation of young women across the country and found the young girls who have ever been pregnant; they had unwanted pregnancy 69.7 percent (Nartruedee Dendoung, 2008)

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

Still, though, teenage pregnancy remains an important public health issue: the US has the highest rate of teen pregnancy among Western industrialized nations (CDC), and pregnancy is the leading cause of high school dropout among girls (Freudenberg & Ruglis, 2007).

This funding will be invested in encouraging co-parenting among some of the hardest - to - reach teenage parents in areas with high rates of teenage pregnancies.

To support these goals, Ms. Butler is in favor of including comprehensive sex education in schools to empower students with the information they need to avoid sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies — the latter of which will help reduce dropout rates among teenage girls.

There is a health care crisis in this country: A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study reports at least one in four teenage girls — ages 14 to 19 — has a sexually transmitted infection; The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy reports the U.S. has the highest rates of teen pregnancy among comparable countries, and an estimated 750,000 teenagers will become pregnant tPregnancy reports the U.S. has the highest rates of teen pregnancy among comparable countries, and an estimated 750,000 teenagers will become pregnant tpregnancy among comparable countries, and an estimated 750,000 teenagers will become pregnant this year.

Across the country, the use of LARCs among adolescent girls has been increasing even as teenage pregnancy rates have been falling, according to Heather Boonstra, director of public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit advocacy organization for sexual and reproductive health issues.