POLICIES AND PRACTICE IN HEALTH

Policies and practice in Health



Policies and practice in Health

Part 1:

The main goal of national pregnancy policy is to guide and take the possible actions at a wider scope. The main responsibility of national pregnancy policy is to prioritize the medium- to long-term goals set by the government for the Young people's sector, and national pregnancy policy identifies all the required strategies for young people entertainment.

Introduction

There is much controversy about who and what is to blame for the high teenage pregnancy rate in United Kingdom. There are many attempts to support teenagers with their sexuality and with pregnancy if it occurs; for example, many teen parenting classes provide information on both prenatal and neonatal care. Also, support groups have been made available to them. Yet, this country has been groping for ways to decrease the pregnancy arid childbearing rates. The outcome has been that teenagers were being exposed to numerous and Contradictory, ambiguous messages, and United Kingdom is still leading the industrialized countries in the rate of adolescent pregnancies.

At this writing, there is general consensus on the local, state, and national levels that there are identified needs and deficient conditions for this target group that necessitate policy action. It is generally agreed that parenting teenagers have special needs which are usually unattended and they are high risk for school dropout. The traditional high school setting was not designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of the adolescent, expectant teenager or teenage parents. These youngsters are striving to cope with physical and emotional needs such as dealing with questions related to prenatal problems and concerns, and how to plan and care for an unexpected infant, or where to sit when you are eight months pregnant and peers laugh because the desks are now too small. (Vincent 2009) Thus, teenage pregnancy has been the major reason students leave school. Adolescent pregnancy represents a serious social problem that requires an understanding of extremely complex behaviors in order to formulate effective policies.

National Teenage Pregnancy Policy for Policy Issues

National Teenage Pregnancy Policy is basically responsible for handling two very volatile issues. These two issues are to prevent teenage pregnancies on one hand and to nurture and provide a quality education for chose who do become pregnant or parents.

As local educational policymakers looked at the decision-making process involving these issues, they were faced with many different opinions and restrictions. Restrictions upon the schools include lack of funds, facilities, personnel and lack of support by some of those who may feel the assistance is not worth the cost.

Pollock (2007) explained that pregnancy along with child care and family responsibilities was the major reason for females to withdraw from secondary education.

Pollock also reminded us that it was illegal per Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendment Act to exclude pregnant or parenting teens from school. However, many such students failed to return to school due to problems associated with school attendance, child care, transportation, lack of support from home and the ...