What do we know about sexual and reproductive health of adolescents in Europe?

Avery, Lisa; Lazdāne, Gunta

doi:10.1080/13625180701617621

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“…More than 20% of adolescents aged 15-19 years have ever been pregnant in 20 of the 26 countries surveyed as part of the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) in sub-Saharan Africa and South/Southeast Asia [42 ]. European data show that over the past 20 years unplanned adolescent pregnancies have declined except for in the UK, where the rate has been stable [43]. Similarly to the developing countries, factors associated with teen pregnancy in the European Union included lower socioeconomic status, leaving school early or disliking school, family disruption, early sexual initiation, and increasing number of partners [44].…”

Section: Teen Pregnancymentioning

confidence: 98%

Global lessons on healthy adolescent sexual development

Koyama

Corliss²,

Santelli³

2009

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

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Section: Teen Pregnancymentioning

confidence: 98%

Global lessons on healthy adolescent sexual development

Koyama

Corliss²,

Santelli³

2009

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

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“…Studies of sexual behaviour in the UK have been led by a concern to reduce teenage pregnancy (Phoenix 1993), propelled in part by the fact that the UK has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in Europe (Avery and Lazdane 2008;UNICEF 2001;United Nations Statistics Division 2010). Lack of research is most likely related to the 'unproblematic' sexual behaviour reported by British Asians -an analysis of data collected through the most recent British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles in 2000 showed that Indian (and Pakistani) men and women reported fewer sexual partnerships, later first intercourse and a lower prevalence of STIs than other ethnic groups .…”

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confidence: 99%

Love and desire amongst middle-class Gujarati Indians in the UK and India

Twamley

2013

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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The paper describes findings from an ethnographic study exploring understandings of love and intimacy amongst young heterosexual middle-class Indians of Gujarati origin in the UK and India. A two-site comparative study was used to enable an understanding of how social and economic contexts shape cultural constructions of intimate relationships and sexuality. Focusing on attitudes to 'love at first sight', this paper shows that, for Indian participants, love based on physical attraction denotes a lesser kind of love. A relationship based on 'physical love' is not expected to last, since it has been formed without regard to family and status concerns. Even couples who meet outside of the arranged marriage system demonstrate the quality of their love by not having sex with one another before marriage. In the UK, however, participants view love as properly spontaneous. Love at first sight is considered desirable and demonstrates how the relationship must be based on love only, without any concern for (for example) material gain. This spontaneous love entails both physical attraction and emotional connection - an early transition to sex, usually before marriage, was seen as both desirable and inevitable.

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“…Nowadays adolescents' contraceptive behaviour is an issue of general Public Health concern, since adolescents continue to be a population at risk for both sexual and reproductive health 1 . In particular, the rate of unintended pregnancy in Western Europe is still high and it is estimated that in 2008 around 30% of all pregnancies in Europe ended in induced abortion 2 .…”

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confidence: 99%