Models of Service Delivery:  Teenage Pregnancy

This class activity provides a review of the three models of service delivery discussed in Chapter 4. You may review the models by referring to Table 4.2 in Chapter 4.

• In 1999, the estimated U.S. teen pregnancy rate was 87 pregnancies per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19, with 74 to 95% of the pregnancies being unintended.  This is a 25 % drop from the 1990 rate but is still the highest rate in the developed countries. (Advocates for Youth, Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing in the United States, November 2004, accesses 03 October 2005, from http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/factsheet/fsprechd.pdf)

You are going to work in groups of  to discuss the problem of teenage pregnancy.  Brainstorm the reasons that it occurs and the reasons it is a problem.  The class as a whole then discusses their conclusions.  List all possible services that are available to a female who suspects she is pregnant and subsequently finds she is indeed pregnant, then apply the models of service delivery to teenage pregnancy by categorizing these services as medical, public health, and/or human services.