Background: It is estimated that 15 million births occur every year to adolescents. This represents about 11%of all births each year. The global average rate of births per 1000 females aged 15-19 years is 65. A range of social, cultural, biological and service delivery factors contribute to the high levels of adolescent pregnancy and childbirth. This study was conducted to determine the causes ...

Mental health problems during pregnancy affect around 20% of mothers and may have lasting impacts on children’s health, cognitive socio-emotional skills, educational attainment, future labour market outcomes. We identify the causal effect mothers’ prenatal mental a range child psychological, Our methodology exploits shocks to that are induced by illness mother’s friends or relatives, whilst acc...

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...

BACKGROUND Well-organized administrative data with large numbers of cases (building on linked files from several government departments) and a population registry facilitate new studies of population health and child development. Analyses of family relationships and a number of outcomes--educational achievement, health, teen pregnancy, and receipt of income assistance--are relatively easy to co...

background adolescence and youth are life-threatening stages of development when a range of unsafe behaviors can harmfully affect a person’s health and their social and educational performance. objectives the present study aimed to determine the incidence and prevalence of high-risk behaviors related to intentional and unintentional harm in adolescents of zahedan (iran). patients and methods th...

BACKGROUND Few studies in low-income settings analyse linear growth trajectories from foetal life to pre-adolescence. The aim of this study is to describe linear growth and stunting from birth to 10 years in rural Bangladesh and to analyse whether maternal and environmental determinants at conception are associated with linear growth throughout childhood and stunting at 10 years. METHODS AND ...

Young people are our human capital for the future, therefore child and adolescent health has attracted considerable political and professional attention in recent years. Health is indivisible, requires holistic approach throughout the individual's life. Healthy outcome at one point in the life cycle, provides a positive determinant for health elsewhere in the cycle. Health and development of th...

v r w i a w This supplement to the Journal of Adolescent Health is devoted o understanding the health and well-being of adolescents by aking the long view of this period of the life cycle. The articles erein analyze data collected from conception through age 15 rom 4,500 individuals born in the city of Pelotas, Brazil, in 1993. he analyses provide us with not just a snapshot of adolescents’ urr...