Sunday, 18 December 2016

DUNDEE’S TEEN PREGNANCY RATE DROPS, SAYS REPORT

The quantity of ladies having youngsters in their teenagers is keeping on dropping in Dundee.

New insights uncovered by the Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland demonstrate that the city has gained ground in handling the quantity of young pregnancies, having once had the most elevated rate in Europe.

In any case, there were 86 under-20s who conceived an offspring or are expected to have babies in Dundee this year, contrasted and 172 in the city in 2010 — a half decrease.

In Tayside this year, the quantity of under-20s conceiving an offspring was 186, contrasted and 337 in 2010 — a 45% diminishing.

Be that as it may, regardless of the drop in Dundee, the number is still twice as high as in Perth and Kinross, where the quantity of under-20s who conceived an offspring this year was 42 — down from 85 in 2010. The ISD figures additionally demonstrate that there is still a solid connection between adolescent pregnancy and hardship.

The greater part of the individuals who conceived an offspring less than 20 years old originated from the most denied territories of the district.

The figures are temporary, in light of the individuals who have as of now had babies or are expected to before the end of the year.

The report additionally demonstrates that a high number of ladies in the city are putting their unborn youngsters at hazard by taking medications, including heroin and cocaine, amid pregnancy.

Dundee is the chamber territory with the most astounding rate of pregnant medication clients in Scotland, and Tayside is the second-most noteworthy of all the wellbeing sheets in the nation. For each 1,000 pregnancies, there were 33.5 ladies who were utilizing drugs amid their pregnancy as a part of the city.

Ann Eriksen, NHS Tayside's official lead and magistrate for sexual wellbeing, said: "Lessening wellbeing disparities and guaranteeing access to proper watch over those at most noteworthy hazard is a need for NHS Tayside.

"Tayside has as of now observed achievements in enhancing sexual wellbeing results and has seen the best decrease in high school pregnancies of all Scottish wellbeing sheets, and adolescent origination rates in Tayside now sit underneath the national normal."

Justine Craig, head of birthing assistance, said that all pregnant ladies had a full maternal history taken as a major aspect of their routine antenatal care, including a talk about medications, and said that ladies who required counsel around medications were alluded to the pertinent bolster benefit.

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