Speaker: Dr Andy Baxter from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow.
The Teenage Pregnancy Strategy was launched in England in 1999 with a ten-year goal of halving teenage pregnancy rates. Despite initial indications that it was successful in reducing England's teenage pregnancy rates, similar changes were seen across several countries, suggesting falling rates would have occurred in the absence of the strategy.
Previous research has indicated that not all programmes for reducing teenage pregnancy are successful. Other causes, such as improving contraception technology, adolescent development interventions and promotion of education, may have had greater effects on teenage pregnancy rates.
