Teenage Pregnancy: A contemporary problem of adolescence

Teenage pregnancy--a contemporary problem of adolescence.

OPSOMMING Weens verskeie faktore in die hedendaagse samelewing word tienerswangerskappe 'n gemeenskapsgesondheidsprobleem. Swangerskap by die tiener het indirekte ekonomiese gevolge weens die lae vlak van skoolopvoeding en die hoër pariëteit wat gewoonlik daarmee gepaard gaan. Verder hou swangerskap by tieners ’n hoër risiko vir die moeder en kind in as by ouer vroue. Besondere probleme wat dee...

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 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