Teen Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention
Teen Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention
The proposed public health leadership theory was developed to identify public health interventions that can address risky sexual behavior in teenagers, which is associated with teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevalence in teenagers. The risk factors contributing to risky sexual behaviors in the teenage population and the interventions public health leaders can use to address those factors are presented in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Public health leadership theory on interventions for addressing risk factors associated with risky sexual behaviors in teenagers.
Teen sex behaviors can be influenced by their socioeconomic ...