scholarly journals Socioeconomic determinants of teenage pregnancy and early motherhood in the United Kingdom: A perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-429
Author(s):  
David Aluga ◽  
Elvis Anyaehiechukwu Okolie
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Environmental Determinants ◽  
Pregnancy And Childbirth ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Motherhood ◽  
The United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has one of the highest teenage birth rates among countries in western Europe. Government initiatives such as the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy introduced by the labor government in 1999 to reduce the teenage pregnancy rate by half in ten years could be responsible for the steady decline in teenage conception and childbirth for the past two decades. However, to sustain this decrease it is crucial to consider the broader socioeconomic and environmental determinants of teenage pregnancy at the population level. A selected literature search was conducted in this respect to highlight the factors that could be neglected by recent interventions on teenage pregnancy and childbirth in the United Kingdom.

OBSTETRIC MANAGEMENT OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENNY E MYERS ◽  
ALEXANDER EP HEAZELL ◽  
REBECCA L JONES ◽  
PHILIP N BAKER
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Adolescent Pregnancy ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Pregnancy Rates ◽  
Birth Rates ◽  
Teenage Birth ◽  
Live Births ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Obstetric Management

Adolescent pregnancy rates in the United Kingdom remain the highest in Western Europe. Interestingly, throughout most of Western Europe teenage birth rates fell during the 1970s, 80s and 90s, but in the United Kingdom rates have remained high. An increasing incidence has also been noted, with 49.9 births per 1,000 women under 18 in 2001 and 52.8 live births per 1,000 women in 2002.

Waking Up in the Poll Booth

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 901-910
Author(s):  
Robert E. Goodin ◽  
James Mahmud Rice
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Waking Up

Judging from Gallup Polls in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, opinion often changes during an election campaign. Come election day itself, however, opinion often reverts back nearer to where it was before the campaign began. That that happens even in Australia, where voting is compulsory and turnout is near-universal, suggests that differential turnout among those who have and have not been influenced by the campaign is not the whole story. Inspection of individual-level panel data from 1987 and 2005 British General Elections confirms that between 3 and 5 percent of voters switch voting intentions during the campaign, only to switch back toward their original intentions on election day. One explanation, we suggest, is that people become more responsible when stepping into the poll booth: when voting they reflect back on the government's whole time in office, rather than just responding (as when talking to pollsters) to the noise of the past few days' campaigning. Inspection of Gallup Polls for UK snap elections suggests that this effect is even stronger in elections that were in that sense unanticipated.

scholarly journals Faith in Rights: the Struggle Over Same- Sex Adoption in the United Kingdom

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1, 2 & 3) ◽  
pp. 2008
Author(s):  
Carl F. Stychin
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Labour Government ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom

Over the past decade of Labour government in the United Kingdom (U.K.), the regulation of sexual orientation through law has frequently been explained by its supporters through a nar- rative of progress and even emancipation. The most recent junction in this journey came in 2007, with the coming into force of the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations on 30 April 2007.1 These Regulations contain measures pro- hibiting discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the provision of goods, facilities and services, education, the use and disposal of premises, and the exercise of public functions.

Revocation of Citizenship and Rule of Law: How Judicial Review Defeated Britain's First Denaturalization Regime

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Weil ◽  
Nicholas Handler
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
The Right ◽  
Western Democracies

Over the past decade, the United Kingdom has deprived an increasing number of British subjects of their citizenship. This policy, known as “denaturalization,” has been applied with particular harshness in cases where foreign-born subjects have been accused of terrorist activity. The increase is part of a global trend. In recent years, Canada, Australia, France, and the Netherlands have either debated or enacted denaturalization statutes. But Britain remains an outlier among Western democracies. Since 2006, the United Kingdom home secretary has revoked the citizenship of at least 373 Britons, of whom at least 53 have had alleged links to terrorism. This is more than the total number of revocations by Canada, France, Australia, and Netherlands combined. These developments are troubling, as the right to be secure in one's citizenship has been a cornerstone of the postwar European liberal political order, and of the international community's commitment to human rights.

scholarly journals “Salus Populi Suprema Lex”: Considerations on the Initial Response of the United Kingdom to the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evaldo Favi ◽  
Francesca Leonardis ◽  
Tommaso Maria Manzia ◽  
Roberta Angelico ◽  
Yousof Alalawi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Initial Response ◽  
Primary Reaction ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Accurate Analysis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Uk

In several countries worldwide, the initial response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been heavily criticized by general public, media, and healthcare professionals, as well as being an acrimonious topic in the political debate. The present article elaborates on some aspects of the United Kingdom (UK) primary reaction to SARS-CoV-2 pandemic; specifically, from February to July 2020. The fact that the UK showed the highest mortality rate in Western Europe following the first wave of COVID-19 certainly has many contributing causes; each deserves an accurate analysis. We focused on three specific points that have been insofar not fully discussed in the UK and not very well known outside the British border: clinical governance, access to hospital care or intensive care unit, and implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions. The considerations herein presented on these fundamental matters will likely contribute to a wider and positive discussion on public health, in the context of an unprecedented crisis.

Educación financiera y psicología económica: una breve discusión y algunas recomendaciones

2021 ◽  
pp. 222-249
Author(s):  
Vera Rita de Mello Ferreira ◽  
Cláudia M. J. Forte
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
Economic Psychology ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom

This chapter examines an intersection between the areas of financial education and economic psychology. The objective is to discuss the importance of dialogue between them, based on material produced by organizations and countries considered benchmarks in financial education, such as the OECD – Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the United Kingdom, Australia and others, along with data collected over a 27-year trajectory in the area of economic psychology and, over the past 15 years, in efforts and analyses dedicated to financial education.

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