Getting Real: Improving Teenage Sexual Health

ISBN-10: 0716330431
ISBN-13: 9780716330431
Series: Getting Real
Pages: 20
Language: English
Published: 1998
Publisher: Fabian Society
Author: Alison Hadley

Description

Up to a third of young people in the UK have sex before the age of 16: the UK has one of the highest teenage conception rates in the developed world, and one in ten of young poeple are estiamted to suffer from a sexually-transmitted infection. This paper argues that Britain is failing to meet the sexual health needs of its teenagers and suggests teenage sexual health be established as a public health priority.