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Municipal Health Services of the Municipality of Murcia start the year promoting health among adolescents and young people with the aim of preventing unwanted pregnancies and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.
Alcohol: A dangerous ally.
Health authorities consider it necessary to insist on promoting sexual health among adolescents and youth, and the low perception of risk at this age are particularly vulnerable.
In addition, they are in a period of their lives when they are frequent sex, and begin to strengthen attitudes, values and beliefs that will determine the adoption of healthy behaviors in the future.
According to data from Spain last Youth Report 2008 (INJUVE), which examines the evolution of sexual behavior of youth in Spain:
The average age of first sex is 16 years and ten months.
Since 2004, the average ages of onset have been reduced by almost a year for both sexes.
Most young people have had sex, especially after age 18.
The differences between women and men are disappearing.
If one looks at condom use at last sexual intercourse is that it is the procedure used for 87% of teenagers have had sex.
The use of protection methods to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections has remained stable, although it has improved and Spanish young people are less used among immigrants.
This explains the increase in the percentage of unwanted pregnancies (has gone from 9.9% in 2004 to 12.1% in 2008).
While among the percentage of Spanish origin have declined slightly to 9.6% among foreign young women stood at 23.3%.
The process of the "reverse" was used by 12% of adolescents have had sexual intercourse.
The use of birth control pills at last sexual intercourse is clearly the minority: only 8% of adolescents have had sexual intercourse have used this method.
Has increased the percentage of unwanted pregnancies (10% in 2004) to 12%.
The average age at which this occurred was 19.6 years in 2004 and 22.5 years in 2008, almost half (49.5%) of pregnancies ended in abortion.
According to the Register of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (IVE) in the last decade, rates of IVE (number of recorded abortions per 1,000) have risen in all age groups.
Specifically, in 2007, 38.8% of women who had abortions were under 24 years and also in that year, 32.4% of women who have abortions already had a previous or more times.
Moreover, sexually transmitted infections (including syphilis and gonorrhea) than during the decades of 80 and 90 showed a downward trend was interrupted from 2002 due to a relaxation of preventive behaviors.
Despite the finding that young people are well informed can see that this information is superficial, with the continued existence today of important myths and beliefs.
In this regard, the City Council Health Services through its Guide to Health Promotion Programs, offering for years to schools in the municipality of Murcia this type of training through workshops, health education, the that have already benefited thousands of students.
Alcohol: A dangerous ally.
No doubt the presence of alcohol in leisure style among young people is well known by everyone.
We wanted to highlight it first by the intensity in which it appears and the importance of life-youth ratio.
Among the most important and on which we reflect on this campaign, is the role of alcohol as a facilitator and mediator to experience sensations together with the effects of disinhibition facilitates sexual encounters perception of risk and therefore no measures of protection against unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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