Study of Some Sociodemographic Factors in Teenage Pregnancy

Teenage Pregnancy Consequences of Teenage Childbearing

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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 and factors associated with low birth weight].

PURPOSE to analyze the association of pregnancy in adolescence with low birth weight (LBW). METHODS all the patients who gave birth in a teaching Hospital at Maranhão State from July to December 2006 were included in the study and were split in two groups: adolescents (ten to 19 years old) and adults (20 to 34 years old). The variables studied were: skin color, schooling, marital status, fami...

Factors associated with adolescent sexual intercourse and teenage pregnancy

Factors associated with teenage marital pregnancy among Bangladeshi women

BACKGROUND Teenage pregnancy is a public health concern both in developed and developing world. In Bangladesh, most of the first pregnancies occur immediately after marriage, especially among teenagers. Although women aged 15-29 years are the most fertility contributing women in Bangladesh, studies are not yet conducted on teenage pregnancy within this group of women. In the current study, an a...