«Poor adherence with the Canadian pregnancy prevention guidelines means that Canada, inadvertently, is using pregnancy termination rather
than pregnancy prevention to manage fetal risk from isotretinoin,» states lead author Dr. David Henry, senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and executive co-lead of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES).
Not exact matches
I also think many efforts at sex education — those built merely around disease and
pregnancy prevention rather
than human dignity — have hurt people and diminished civil society.
It says, «Many pro-life advocacy efforts have focused on the legal status of abortion, rather
than addressing
prevention of unplanned
pregnancy and the needs of pregnant women and families.
While the study's primary report did not explore religion, some additional analysis focusing on sexual activity and religious identification yielded this result: 80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults (18 to 29) said that they have had sex - slightly less
than 88 percent of unmarried adults, according to the teen
pregnancy prevention organization.
For example, Herve Grandeau, the president of the Fédération des Grands Vins de Bordeaux, thinks
prevention and training around drinking would be more effective in ending problematic drinking during
pregnancy than trying to change people's behaviours through a label.
Though these teen
pregnancy statistics show improvements in teen
pregnancy prevention in recent years, the U.S. teen
pregnancy rate is still substantially higher
than in other western industrialized nations.
Parent perspectives reflect the trend, too, with more
than two - thirds of parents polled saying traditional health topics should definitely be covered at their child's grade level, including physical activity, drug and alcohol abuse, healthy eating and sex education and
pregnancy prevention.
Many women are popping the pill for more
than its
pregnancy -
prevention benefit, according to a study by the Guttmacher Institute.
From what's the best emergency contraception to why IUDs are safer
than people think, here's the absolute latest on
pregnancy prevention.
The goal of support programs for pregnant and parenting teenagers, put simply, is to buck these trends: generally speaking, programs that provide support for teenage parents seek to reduce their dropout rates, including through the
prevention of further unplanned
pregnancies (teenage parents of more
than one child are even more likely to drop out
than those with only one).
More
than 90 percent of Planned Parenthood services are focused on
prevention: every year, Planned Parenthood doctors and nurses provide family planning counseling and birth control to 2.2 million women and men, more
than 1.1 million
pregnancy tests, 770,000 Pap tests, identifying about 94,000 women at risk of developing cervical cancer, nearly 750,000 lifesaving breast exams, more
than four million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections including HIV, nearly 1.5 million emergency contraception kits, and education programs to nearly 1.1 million people.