Teenage Pregnancy and Motherhood

An exploration of young women's perceptions of teenage pregnancy and early motherhood

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The implications of teenage pregnancy and motherhood for primary health care: unresolved issues.

Teenage pregnancy and motherhood have implications for several different aspects of primary health care. First, the provision of health education and contraceptive services is obviously relevant to the prevention of unplanned teenage pregnancy. Secondly, appropriate obstetric care should be provided for teenagers, who are at high risk of developing complications in pregnancy and childbirth. Thi...

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

Teenage Pregnancy Consequences of Teenage Childbearing

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