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From: "Solet, David" <David.Solet@METROKC.GOV>
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Subject: RE: Teen Pregnancy pub
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:24:10 -0800
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Katryne, thanks for forwarding this.  Just wanted to mention this report
seems a overly oriented towards abstinence as a pregnancy prevention method;
too bad to see the feds, who one would expect to be in a leadership
position, pushing this line.

--David

On Wednesday, January 27, 1999 10:56 AM, Lukens-Bull, Katryne A.
[SMTP:kal0303@doh.wa.gov] wrote:
> Here is a report you might find useful
> 
> A National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
> Annual Report 1997-98
> http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/teenp/97-98rpt.htm
> 
> Recently released online, this document from the US Department of Health
> and Human Services is the first annual report on the progress of the
> National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, introduced in January 1997.
> The report does contain some good news: teen birth rates have decreased
> nationally and in all states since 1991, falling twelve percent 
> nationally
> and sixteen percent or more in seventeen states. The report contains
> statistics and analysis of teen birth and pregnancy rates, by age and 
> race.
> It also details the strategies and partnerships forged by the HHS to
> continue this encouraging trend. Appendixes include Teenage Birth Rates 
> in
> the US: National and State Trends, 1990-96; an overview of various HHS 
> teen
> pregnancy provision programs; and Teen Parent Provisions by state.
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Katryne Lukens Bull, MPH, CHES                          Phone:  (360) 
> 236-4063
> Washington State Department of Health             Fax:      (360) 
> 586-7424
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> E-mail:  kal0303@doh.wa.gov
> PO Box 47890
> Olympia, Wa  98504-7890
.