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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:554-555
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Point-Counterpoint

Too much too young? Teenage pregnancy is a public health, not a clinical, problem

Gabriel Scally

Regional Director of Public Health, South West Region, England.

The argument as to whether teenage pregnancy is a public health problem or not entirely depends on the definition of a ‘public health problem’. In the absence of any working definition, Lawlor and Shaw concentrate on the biological outcomes of full-term pregnancies amongst teenagers. There is some legitimacy in their proposition that the adverse maternal outcomes, from a narrow medical perspective, do not constitute a major public health problem. They do not, however, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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