...Nursing Research Project Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Abstract The issue of controlling and preventing teenage pregnancy is a major problem in society. Teenage pregnancy is a significant health issue that plagues our nation and communities. Community and public health nurses are faced with the challenge of addressing teen pregnancy, a monumental health issues that affect vulnerable populations in society. Effectiveness of healthcare interventions depends in part, on the approach that is taken in addressing the presenting issues (Shi & Stevens, 2005). Factors that contribute to teenage pregnancy span socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological issues that are perpetrated by individual characteristics (of the teenagers), peers, family members, and the greater society (Maurer & Smith, 2009). Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note that in 2009, more than 500,000 children were born to mothers of ages 15 to 19 years, at a rate of 45.5 per 1000 mothers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010, para. 1). Teenage pregnancy, a public health priority for youths, is a multifaceted health issue that is influenced, in part, by socioeconomic factors such as peer pressure, low income of families, and the media (Maurer & Smith, 2009; The National Campaign, 2010). Likewise, teenage pregnancy also creates socioeconomic and health problems for teenage mothers, teenage fathers, their children, and society. Some of the effects of...
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...Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Dotlyn Robertson NUR/598 July 8, 2013 Pat Jamerson, RN, PhD Abstract The issue of controlling and preventing teenage pregnancy is a major problem in society. Teenage pregnancy is a significant health issue that plagues our nation and communities. Community and public health nurses are faced with the challenge of addressing teen pregnancy, a monumental health issues that affect vulnerable populations in society. Effectiveness of healthcare interventions depends in part, on the approach that is taken in addressing the presenting issues (Shi & Stevens, 2005). Factors that contribute to teenage pregnancy span socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological issues that are perpetrated by individual characteristics (of the teenagers), peers, family members, and the greater society (Maurer & Smith, 2009). Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note that in 2009, more than 500,000 children were born to mothers of ages 15 to 19 years, at a rate of 45.5 per 1000 mothers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010, para. 1). Teenage pregnancy, a public health priority for youths, is a multifaceted health issue that is influenced, in part, by socioeconomic factors such as peer pressure, low income of families, and the media (Maurer & Smith, 2009; The National Campaign, 2010). Likewise, teenage pregnancy also creates socioeconomic and health problems for teenage mothers, teenage fathers, their children, and society...
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...Reducing Teen Pregnancy and Promoting Health Equity As part of President Obama's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI), CDC is partnering with the federal Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) to reduce teen pregnancy and address disparities in teen pregnancy and childbirth rates. The OASH's Office of Adolescent Health supports public and private groups to fund evidence-based or innovative teen pregnancy prevention programs that are medically accurate and age-appropriate. TPPI is focused on communities with the highest rates, with an emphasis on reaching African American and Hispanic/Latino youth. To reduce teen pregnancy and childbirth rates, programs will need to use broad strategies designed to reach a majority of youth in a community. They also will need to use more intensive strategies that are tailored to reach youth who are at the highest risk. The goals of the TPPI are to Reduce the rates of teen pregnancy and childbirth in priority populations. Increase the number of youth who have access to evidence-based or evidence-informed programs designed to prevent teen pregnancy. Increase links between teen pregnancy prevention programs and community-based clinical services. Educate stakeholders about evidence-based or evidence-informed strategies designed to reduce teen pregnancy and about the needs and resources of the priority communities. Organizations funded through this partnership will address all of these goals. In 2010, CDC provided 5-year...
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... Mrs. Boyce English 12 Teen pregnancy is a widely debated topic in todays society. Approximately 900,000 teenagers become pregnant in the united states each year before the age of twenty years old (Frick 21). The pregnancy rate for the united states alone for girls aged fifteen through nineteen stands at a eighty four pregnancies per 1000 girls (19). Countries like the United states, Romania, Belarus, and Bulgaria have the highest rates of pregnancy above seventy pregnancies per 1000 young women (19). Teen prenancy is one of the most controversial social topics of our time. Teen pregnancy has continuosly became a problem through the years. In 1950, the right thing to do if pregnancy occurred, was to get married. In 1955, only six percent of caucasian teenage girls were pregnant outside of marriage; today it stands at forty two percent ("The Elkhart Project").The teen birth rate was fifty percent higher in 1957 than it is now ("The Elkhart Project"). In 1992, the federal goverment spent more than thirty four billion dollars on welfare for families begun by teens ("The Elkhart Project"). Overly accepting attitudes from parents pose a problem in today's outlooks on pregnancy from teenagers. According to several studies, younger siblings of teen parents are two to six times more likely to become pregnant ( Frick 77 ). People say teen pregnancy is happening because eighty three percent of the television programs include sexual...
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...Dorothy Lucas Marketing Plan for S.T.E.P.S Marketing Management June 3, 2014 Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary --------------------------------------------------------- 3 2. Situation Analysis --------------------------------------------------------- 5 3.1 Market Summary ------------------------------------------------------- 5 3.2 SWOT Analysis ------------------------------------------------------- 7 3.3 Competition ------------------------------------------------------- 8 3.4 Product Offering ------------------------------------------------------- 8 3. Marketing Strategy ------------------------------------------------------- 9 3.1 Mission ------------------------------------------------------- 9 3.2 Marketing Objectives ------------------------------------------------- 9 3.3 Financial Objectives ------------------------------------------------ 9 3.4 Target Markets ------------------------------------------------ 10 3.5 Positioning ------------------------------------------------ 10 3.6 Strategies ----------------------------------------------- 10 3.7 Marketing Program ----------------------------------------------- 10 Pricing Distribution Advertising and Promotion Customer Service 3.8 Marketing Research --------------------------------------------------11 4. Financials -------...
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...purpose of health promotion in nursing is to support and educate patients to better understand what they can do to maintain optimal health and/or achieve better health. There are three levels of health promotion and include primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary health promotion is the education to prevent disease. The goal is to reduce the patient’s risk for disease. This can be done through several different ways of education. One example is preventing childhood obesity. In an article in the American Journal of Public Health, (AJPH), August 2012, it discussed a project called Be Our Voice. The project was created by several organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the California Medical Association Foundation, the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (McPherson, Mirkin, Heatherley, & Homer, 2012). The Be Our Voice project sought health care providers ranging from nurses, dentists, physical therapists, physician assistants to physicians for training and support to advocate for prevention of childhood obesity. Their primary...
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...Community Pregnancy Project April McCormick MGT/522 September 01, 2014 Mark Holtzclaw Community Pregnancy Project Teenage pregnancy is a social problem that has existed for over a century and has always been a great concern to every nation due to the numerous adverse consequences it brings on both the economy and society at large. In the middle of the 70s, teenage pregnancy had reached an astronomical height an “epidemic” by the Alan Guttmacher Institute in a booklet entitled “11 Million Teenagers” which was widely circulated at the time (Gallagher, M., 1999). In fact, put pressure on Congress at the time to pass a bill that would increase family planning fund by hundred percent as a strategy to curtail teenage pregnancy “epidemic” (Gallagher, M., 1999). The rate of Teenage Pregnancy rose from 23.9 births per 1000 teenage female in 1975 to 31.4 in 1985 and has gotten higher to 46.4 in 1994. In the last part of the 90s, the rate had dropped by16 percent. For teenagers between 15 and 19 years, the rate of teen pregnancy had dropped by 36 percent by 2002 and 33 percent by 2004 (Gallagher, M., 1999). Until recent times, Teenage pregnancy was considered an abomination and a mockery to a family. It carried a stigma and a disgrace to the young mothers and their immediate families. The young mothers were often considered sinners and the children born out of wedlock were referred to as bastards or illegitimate. The horror and the disgrace associated with giving birth to bastards...
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...GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES IN TACKLING TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN ENGLAND Name of student Class name Instructor’s name Name of school Date ABSTRACT Teenage pregnancy is one of the major problems affecting the United Kingdom’s not only the health sector but also all other sectors. The problem has slowly been increasing and through its associated negative impacts has affected the economic status of the country due to increased number of school drop-outs. Accessibility to health and contraception services has been one of the major causes of teenage pregnancy more in England than any other western European countries. Due to the severity of the associated effects of teenage pregnancies in the country, the government has developing ways to minimize or rather mitigate the increasing rate of teenage pregnancies in England. The paper addresses the extent of how government initiated strategies has impacted on the overall teenage pregnancies problem. DEDICATION (OPTIONAL) TABLE OF CONTENT ABSTRACT 2 DEDICATION (OPTIONAL) 3 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 5 Introduction 5 Background 5 Problem statement 6 Research Question 6 Research Objective 7 Main Objective 7 Specific objectives 7 Research Justification 7 Literature search strategy 7 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 9 Introduction 9 Government role in addressing teenage pregnancy 9 Barriers towards teenage pregnancy reduction 10 Bibliography 12 APPENDICES...
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...GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES IN TACKLING TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN ENGLAND Name of student Class name Instructor’s name Name of school Date ABSTRACT Teenage pregnancy is one of the major problems affecting the United Kingdom’s not only the health sector but also all other sectors. The problem has slowly been increasing and through its associated negative impacts has affected the economic status of the country due to increased number of school drop-outs. Accessibility to health and contraception services has been one of the major causes of teenage pregnancy more in England than any other western European countries. Due to the severity of the associated effects of teenage pregnancies in the country, the government has developing ways to minimize or rather mitigate the increasing rate of teenage pregnancies in England. The paper addresses the extent of how government initiated strategies has impacted on the overall teenage pregnancies problem. DEDICATION (OPTIONAL) TABLE OF CONTENT ABSTRACT 2 DEDICATION (OPTIONAL) 3 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 5 Introduction 5 Background 5 Problem statement 6 Research Question 6 Research Objective 7 Main Objective 7 Specific objectives 7 Research Justification 7 Literature search strategy 7 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 9 Introduction 9 Government role in addressing teenage pregnancy 9 Barriers towards teenage pregnancy reduction 10 Bibliography 12 APPENDICES...
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...before they were out of high school. “People always seemed to expect that I'd follow the same path just because I'm Latina and a part of this family” (Rodriguez). All things Gaby wanted to prove wrong, but things don’t go as planned. After thinking about it Gaby realized that this is not all a bad thing and she wanted to challenge the idea that a stereotype has to define your future or if it does not. So Gaby wanted to do something to define that stereotype and faked a pregnancy for her senior project....
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...how teen parenthood is being glorified, reasons for such an increase in teenage pregnancies, and how effective distributing contraceptives would be. INTRODUCTION I. Attention getter: (show slide of pregnant girls) How many of you have ever seen television shows like “16 and Pregnant”, “Teen Mom”, or “The Secret Life of an American Teenager”? II. Credibility statement: I am not a teen parent, but I have several friends who are and went to school with several teenage parents. Once I chose this topic, I did a lot of research online about the rising problem of teen pregnancy and the unfortunate consequences of contraceptives not being available to teenagers. III. Relating to the Audience: While most of you are probably not teenage parents, I bet many of you know either a couple girls who got pregnant at a young age or a few guys who got girls pregnant at a young age. Teenage pregnancy is something that affects all of us in some way, either in our homes and neighborhoods or on our televisions and computer screens. IV. Thesis statement: In order to explain why contraceptives are becoming such a necessity in schools today, I will share how teen parenthood is being glorified, reasons for such an increase in teenage pregnancies, and how effective distributing contraceptives would be. Transition: First, I want to share how teen parenthood is being glorified. BODY I. Today, teen pregnancy is flaunted in front of everyone. It makes the front page and covers the magazine...
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...Hydrotherapy during Pregnancy Hydrotherapy is when a pregnant woman immerses herself in water that covers her abdomen, during the first stage of labor. It is often utilized as a non-pharmacological source of pain management for laboring women, and it is also considered to be a technique that promotes natural childbirth. Hydrotherapy not only provides comfort, but it also promotes physiological childbirth and supports relaxation. Although hydrotherapy is recommended for women, there are eligibility requirements that include the following: healthy pregnant women over 37 weeks of gestation, no complications during pregnancy, a cephalic presentation, and also a single fetus pregnancy (Dykes, Johnson, Frazer, & Hussy, 2017). The following paper will discuss research regarding hydrotherapy, ideal nursing outcomes, and how to promote the use of hydrotherapy in pregnancy. As a vaginal delivery is a painful experience for women, hydrotherapy aims to reduce the pain experienced by women during this special time in their lives. A study completed by Taghavi, Barband, & Khaki (2015), aimed to further explore the use of hydrotherapy on the progress of labor and delivery. One hundred women without any risk factors were utilized as the sample population, and were further divided into fifty...
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...birth control among the 17-23 age groups. Prevention will focus on increasing awareness and education in this age group from poverty-stricken areas, which are prone to behavior that leads to early pregnancy. We will measure the degree of change by the decrease in pregnancies over a specified time frame. This initiative will also measure the increase in the number of males and females who take part in educational and training programs that focus on prevention. The degree of change will focus on the methods that help prevent unwanted pregnancies, family planning, and the effectiveness of these methods. We will measure the increase in use of condoms, emergency contraceptives, abstinence, and the pill provided by this program. The educational portion will provide information on the effects of not using birth control contraceptives such as sexually transmitted diseases. The success of this program does not depend on prevention methods alone, but acquiring a good outreach program and skilled administrators. The goal is to reduce unintentional pregnancies in unprivileged communities. “Shefali S. Kulkarni states that almost in 40 years teen pregnancies are at the lowest level, research data by Guttmacher Institute” (Kulkarni, 2012, p. 1). The cost of unplanned or unintended pregnancies cost the nation millions per year, and by educating the population, the organization can put the money toward more services and programs to benefit women, and teens. Preventive care and access to services...
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...URINARY TRACT INFECTION IN PREGNANCY: BACKGROUND The occurrence of acute pyelonephritis within the duration of pregnancy increases lower urinary tract infection that has been closely associated with the upper urinary tract infection. The association of asymptomatic bacteriuria includes risk factors for lower urinary tract infection in pregnancies with multiparity, diabetes mellitus, urinary tract malformations, low socioeconomic status, and preterm labor delivery. The detrimental asymptomatic bacteriuria within the upper urinary tract as well as the lower urinary tract that may cause issues of adverse perinatal outcomes includes preterm delivery and low neonatal birth weight (5-8). The progression of pyelonephritis in nonpregnant women is only 1% to 2% whereas ASB in pregnant women will progress into pyelonephritis in 20-40% cases. This increasing chance of infection in the maternal body is due to immunosuppression normally during pregnancy; Allowing increase growth of Escherichia coli in association to the lower and upper UTIs, the acute pyelonephritis in pregnancy continues to scale significant numbers in maternal and fetal morbidity. Maternal sepsis, renal failure, and respiratory insufficiency are among the associations found between pyelonephritis and maternal-fetal compromise [3]. Due to most pyelonephritis cases presented in the second to third trimester of gestational period, the threat of preterm delivery can result in tocolytic administration, which risks for pulmonary...
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...Pregnancy Intentions and Teenage Pregnancy Among Latinas: A Mediation Analysis Luv Touchet HCS/465 May 5, 2014 Patricia Dehof Pregnancy Intentions and Teenage Pregnancy Among Latinas: A Mediation Analysis Teenage Latinas tend to have higher pregnancy rates than their fellow black and white teenagers. The researchers in this article that conducted this survey focused on a group of 1,000 females, aged 15-19 of diverse groups, including 213 female Latinas. In this article, adolescent Latinas had intentions of and were pleased to have become pregnant versus their black and non-Latina counterparts. The problem that my chosen article focuses on is high rates of teenage pregnancy among Latinas than those of white and black ethnic groups. With higher pregnancy rates, this is an indication of performing unprotected sexual activities, which leads to higher risks of sexually transmitted diseases. High pregnancy rates can lead to other health and social risk factors such as being a single mother, dropping out of school, and living in poverty. Health and social risk factors should be a means to have interventions to reduce intentional and unintended pregnancies. These risk factors can be avoided with access to contraceptives and mentoring the youth. This article discusses how Latina teenagers feel about pregnancy and would steps can be done to reduce this problem. Health care professionals should study high pregnancy rates among Latina...
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