Teenage Pregnancy
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY
This essay aims to use the principles of epidemiology to describe the problem of adolescent pregnancy and demonstrate its significance and impact as a public health problem. In the same wise applying epidemiological principles the determinants of teenage pregnancy are identified and an attempt is made to conceptualise the interplay between the socioeconomic environments and the biological factors in giving rise to the problem and influencing the life course of the condition. This essay will also demonstrate the need to utilise the knowledge of the epidemiology of the condition to inform clinical governance and good clinical practice in the management and prevention of the health and social complications suffered by pregnant adolescents. Knowledge of the epidemiology of adolescent pregnancy will facilitate the formulation of health promotion and health prevention strategies aimed at reducing the global impact of the condition because adolescent pregnancy and child survival constitutes a significant part of wider global public health agenda such as the millennium development goals. Gibbs (1988) reflective model will be adopted in the course of this essay and the conclusion to this essay recommendations for research and improved understanding will be made.
Epidemiology is the defined as the study of the distribution and risk/protective factors in a named population this study is then applied to control public health problems ( Lucianne b et al 2005). (Orme , J 2007) described public health epidemiology as the main component of public health and should be the primary tool in methods accessing the causes of poor health and to evaluate preventive and therapeutic measures, epidemiology analyses the relationship between disease ill health and causative factors ,In the past classical public health epidemiology was used and its activities includes surveillance and outbreak control of communicable disease outbreak , monitoring
This essay aims to use the principles of epidemiology to describe the problem of adolescent pregnancy and demonstrate its significance and impact as a public health problem. In the same wise applying epidemiological principles the determinants of teenage pregnancy are identified and an attempt is made to conceptualise the interplay between the socioeconomic environments and the biological factors in giving rise to the problem and influencing the life course of the condition. This essay will also demonstrate the need to utilise the knowledge of the epidemiology of the condition to inform clinical governance and good clinical practice in the management and prevention of the health and social complications suffered by pregnant adolescents. Knowledge of the epidemiology of adolescent pregnancy will facilitate the formulation of health promotion and health prevention strategies aimed at reducing the global impact of the condition because adolescent pregnancy and child survival constitutes a significant part of wider global public health agenda such as the millennium development goals. Gibbs (1988) reflective model will be adopted in the course of this essay and the conclusion to this essay recommendations for research and improved understanding will be made.
Epidemiology is the defined as the study of the distribution and risk/protective factors in a named population this study is then applied to control public health problems ( Lucianne b et al 2005). (Orme , J 2007) described public health epidemiology as the main component of public health and should be the primary tool in methods accessing the causes of poor health and to evaluate preventive and therapeutic measures, epidemiology analyses the relationship between disease ill health and causative factors ,In the past classical public health epidemiology was used and its activities includes surveillance and outbreak control of communicable disease outbreak , monitoring
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