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Inside Health

Feedback on Teenage Pregnancy, Smoothies, AMD, Hospital Beds, Frailty, Feedback on Gallstones, Moles

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the last of the current series Mark Porter answers your feedback on sex education, off licence use of drugs and drinking smoothies instead of eating fruit.

Plus hospital bed numbers have been halved over 25 years, while admissions have rocketed - up by 3 million in the last decade alone; Inside Health discusses how hospitals have been coping.

Plus calls for frailty to be an official diagnosis rather than simply a general description - Mark Porter examines the implications.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Greg Jenna and good news, Your Dead to Me is back for a new series. Here we go. Yes, we'll explore Emperor Nero's notorious reign with Professor Marybeard and Patton Oswald. I would not want my daughter having the remote control, not alone an empire. We'll dissect the decadent life of Philippe Duke-Dor-Leon with Tom Allen. I've often tried to pretend I'm an aristocrat and being very quickly knocked down. And there'll be so much more with comedians like Olga Koch, Mike Mosniak and Rihalina. I'm excited. You're dead to me, the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Listen first on BBC Sounds. Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. I hope you enjoy it. Coming up today, hospital beds. Their numbers were once a marker of the state of the NHS,

0:42.9

but they hardly get a mention these days. We put that right. And frailty, now a diagnosis rather than a

0:50.0

description. And if missed, or not manage properly, one that can lead to people becoming

0:55.0

very sick, very quickly.

0:57.2

But first, it's over to you.

0:59.0

This is the last programme in the current series, and we've asked for your feedback on the

1:02.8

issues we've covered so far this year.

1:05.2

Robert, who listens in America, was unhappy with our suggestion that early sex education

1:10.3

might have contributed to the recent fall

1:12.6

in teenage pregnancy rates in the UK. He feels it's more likely to be down to better

1:17.3

contraception. And what Robert would really like to know is whether sex education means people

1:22.0

are less likely to start sexual relationships early or to just be more careful when they do. A difficult question.

1:29.4

And one I put to Kay Wellings, Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health Research at the London

1:34.1

School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. We do know from the research the roots by which we're

1:39.8

achieving the ends we're achieving. So, for example, we have seen a big drop in the teenage pregnancy rates.

1:47.6

That has come about largely as a result of increased use of contraception rather than delayed intercourse.

1:56.8

And there hasn't been a change over recent time in the age at which young people have sex.

2:02.4

So as we've introduced more sex education, that hasn't delayed sexual contact.

2:07.1

It just means that people are behaving more responsibly.

2:09.3

Yes, you've got young people entering their 16th year.

2:13.3

A third of them are sexually active, just under a third, 31%.

2:17.5

So over two-thirds are not.

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