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Some of the measures that can be taken aiming to reduce the high rates of teenage pregnancy is to
provide better information to young people regarding the availability of contraceptive services such
as Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC) and how young people can easily access it. Also, it can
be implemented a Fast Track Card System in practices which enables urgent appointments for EHC to
everyone showing this card. Furthermore, information can be provided about local contraception and
sexual health services for under 25s (Saunders 2002).
Additionally, part of this kind of policy is to focus on the needs of each town/city separately.
Therefore, for those towns/cities that have been identified as having high teenage conception rates
and also high deprivation index scores there will be a range of specific interventions and services that
will meet the needs of the targeted population of those towns/cities.
Tabi (2002) stated that communities, in order to achieve the desired outcome, that is to reduce
unintended pregnancies, first have to identify high‐risk behaviours in the community that affect young
people’s growth and development, and then design interventions from a holistic perspective. For
communities to be able to achieve the above aim, it is necessary to use appropriately the skills of all
professionals working closely with the young population. As Underdown and Sexty (2000) found, only
25% of the health improvement programmes had developed a local focus on sexual health and
teenage pregnancy through multiagency working. However, Hawksley (1996) stressed that teenage pregnancy can be tackled more effectively when multidisciplinary teams work in collaboration in
order to address the multiplicity of the needs of teenagers regarding their sexual health.
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