Black Teenage Pregnancy

Teenage pregnancy.

OBJECTIVES This article examines trends in teenage pregnancy in Canada, focussing on induced abortions, live births and fetal loss among women aged 15 to 19 in 1997. DATA SOURCES The data come from the Hospital Morbidity Data Base and the Canadian Vital Statistics Data Base at Statistics Canada, and the annual Therapeutic Abortion Survey, conducted by the Canadian Institute for Health Informa...

Teenage Pregnancy Consequences of Teenage Childbearing

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[Teenage pregnancy outcome].

PURPOSE to compare delivery and pregnancy follow-up among adolescent and non-adolescent pregnant women whose delivery occurred in a tertiary hospital from Região de Lisboa (Portugal). METHODS retrospective study with 10,656 deliveries. Pregnancy follow-up, delivery type, need of episiotomy and severe lacerations, Apgar index at the fifth minute and the delivery weight have been evaluated. The...

Teenage Pregnancy and

Preventing teenage pregnancy.

Preventing unwanted pregnancy in teenagers has become a high priority for health care purchasers and providers. The publication of the White Paper ‘Health of the Nation’ raised the profile of teenage pregnancy by selecting pregnancy in under-16s as a target area. Although the rate of pregnancy in teenagers had been falling recently in the United Kingdom, it has recently risen; we still have a h...