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Teenage Pregnancy In The African-American Community
KaTeria Rhodes
PUBH 3330

Systematic Review Update #2 In the 1990s, teenage pregnancy was identified as a major public health issue right along with cancer and cardiovascular disease prompting public health interventions to be created. When researching teenage pregnancy in the African-American community I wanted to know were there specific things that caused African-Americans to have such a high number of teenage pregnancies compared to other races. Things like education and socio-economic status seems to come into play when it comes to the question of why there are so many pregnancies. Several studies were examined to see if there were common indicators found in each study done as to why this increase has occurred. In one study it was found …show more content…
Also the data in these studies were only limited to teenagers in public school instead of all teenagers. Another survey would need to be administered in order to match the findings that the YRBS yielded.
After researching I have found that the factors that I previously named all played a part in the increase and decrease of pregnancy rates. The results that I found show a clear linkage between socioeconomic status and education with teenage pregnancy. These results will help with creating better intervention programs and also help health educators to better assess the problem of teenage pregnancy in the African-American community. …show more content…
(2004 March). Teenage pregnancy rates: high compared with where and when? Retrieved from http://jrs.sagepub.com/content/97/3/121.full.pdf+html
Orr, M., Sackoff, J., Santelli,J., Waddell, E. (2010, May). Pregnancy risk among black, white, and hispanic teen girls in new york city public schools. Retrieved from
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