we do have library in school

I'll try and check my online library for you for any journals that may help.

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Try refining the data u put in. It is a little confusing, eg. "rise in teenage pregnancies 16-18" ??? Surely it should read teenage pregnancies under 16...?

If you have access to OVID in your library, check out the searches on there. Fill in the fields, try some combinations of buzz words, follow links etc, you may have more luck tham on your bog standard search engine such as google...

Failing that try http://www.dogpile.com, it's a meta search engine which searches other search engines on your behalf.

Happy hunting!

the information i got wasnt enough that was why i asked the question.if i can get another good website for the once i know was googles and ask jevees. though i typed the question in there but couldnot get enough information. that was the more reason i asked not that i could make a research of my own i can. but there is a proverb that says two head is better than 1 at least with your own good information i will be able to get a better dirction.

the question is "how can we account for the rise in teenage pregnancy in under 16-18yrs in the north west of England since 1995".

Hiya you sound mega stressed over this info gathering. Know the feeling, I have just done neonatal intensive care course! I joined the nhs elibrary, can access loads of info there. http://www.elib.nhs.uk . they will give you an athens password, you can access info at home or at work. I found this a great source. hope you have it all done by now anyway, and can sit back and enjoy the sun, but for the future this may help. Good Luck! :)

This one should work

http://www.library.nhs.uk/

the link doesnt work sorry :uhoh21:

Sorry, I go in through http://www.elib.scot.nhs.uk

You might also try www.hda.nhs.uk( has some links to teen preg. info)

or http://www.dh.gov.uk

or http://www.nhs.uk

hope these can provide you with some help. I dont know if you could use the first ref if you dont work in scottish health authority, but this has been a great help to me! :)

start on the internet with a broad search, and then scan through that for more specific data. also, you can extrapolate some of the info to the under 16yo age group if it makes sense to you. when I did an internet search for "rise in teenage pregnancies in northwest england", I found an abundance of info. many governmental organizations were listed, too -- maybe you could go directly to their websites or call them for published statistics & papers on this subject? the internet may be the best way to go, rather than a library. this is always how i wrote papers or researched a given subject...

google>> rise in "teenage pregnancy" northwest England

"The association between socioeconomic deprivation and teenage pregnancy and childbearing is well established in Great Britain (15). A longitudinal study there shows that the risk of becoming a teenage mother is almost 10 times higher among women whose family is in the lowest social class than among those whose family is in the highest class. In addition, teenagers who live in public housing are three times more likely to become mothers than their peers in owner-occupied housing (16). Throughout Scotland, from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, pregnancy rates increased in the most deprived areas and, on average, either remained the same or decreased in the most affluent areas. But the relationship between disadvantage and teenage pregnancy can also vary over time. In Scotland, socioeconomic deprivation explained a larger proportion of local variation in teenage pregnancy rates in the 1990s than it did in the 1980s (17)."

(15) United Kingdom, Social Exclusion Unit, Teenage Pregnancy: Report Presented to Parliament by the Prime Minister, London: Social Exclusion Unit, 1999; Diamond I et al., Spatial variation in teenage conceptions in South and West England, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1999, Series A: Statistics in Society, 162(3):273-289;

(16) United Kingdom, Social Exclusion Unit, 1999, op. cit. (see reference 15), p. 17.

(17) McLeod A, Changing patterns of teenage pregnancy: population based study of small areas, British Medical Journal, 2001, 323(7306):199-203.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3325101.html#17