Teenage Pregnancy: A Socially Inflicted Health Hazard Bratati Banerjee‚ GK Pandey‚1 Debashis Dutt‚2 Bhaswati Sengupta‚2 Maitrayei Mondal‚2 and Sila Deb Department of Community Medicine‚ Maulana Azad Medical College‚ New Delhi‚ India 1Department of Epidemiology‚ All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health‚ Kolkata‚ India 2Department of Public Health Administration‚ All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health‚ Kolkata‚ India Address for correspondence: Dr. Bratati Banerjee‚ Department
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method of contraception” (CDC‚ 2010a). It is important to have preventative and educational programs available to our youth as they enter the age of risk of unintended pregnancies. SCHOOL-BASED PREGNANCY PREVENTION PROGRAMS Introduction The United States continues to experience the highest teenage pregnancy rate among developed countries; the phenomenon remains a complex occurrence for families‚ educators‚ health care professionals and the United States government (Hardy &
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SOCIAL SUDIES SCHOOL BASED ASSESSMENT (SBA) 2013 CANDIDATE NAME: MITSEY STONE CANDIDATE NUMBER: SCHOOL: MONTEGO-BAY E-LEARNING TERRITORY: TEACHER: TITLE: An examination on Teenage Pregnancy in my community TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgement Introduction Task 1: Statement of Problem Task 2: Reason for Selecting Area of Research Task 3: Method of Investigation Task 4: Data Collection Instrument Task
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While the United States having the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world‚ new phenomenon’s controlling debates in today’s society consistently reflects upon teen pregnancy and the average age of teen mothers declining drastically. Controversies in today’s media‚ political debates‚ and views on birth control depict both ends of an abstruse teen pregnancy spectrum‚ as people choose to glamorize such motherhood or castigate it. In society‚ many people believe success can come easy
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Which food not to eat during your pregnancy? Pregnancy-the birth of miracle‚ rainbow and all things sugar‚ spicy and nice. One of the most debated topics is the diet and exercise a pregnant woman should follow. A well rounded and balanced meal is important. But‚ what may work for some pregnant ladies may not work for others. Cravings in pregnancy are quite normal‚ thanks to the hormonal surge. Women all over have goofy cravings which can range from eating sauerkraut to eating ice cream all the time
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Pregnancy In this journal‚ I have chosen my friend’s mother‚ Mrs Weng to be interviewed as she could still recall her process of pregnancy to parenthood. After Mrs Weng found out that she was pregnant‚ she was very happy as they finally have a baby of their own. However‚ her parents were very worried and they were not very much excited as she is the youngest in the family‚ thus pregnancy seems to be normal to them. During the first three months‚ Mrs Weng felt nausea‚ fatigue‚ and she loses her appetite
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Effects of teen pregnancies on the children involved. These children are far more likely to grow up in poverty‚ to have more health problems‚ to suffer from higher rates of abuse and neglect‚ to fail in school‚ to become teen mothers‚ to commit delinquent acts and adult crimes‚ and to incur failed adult marriages and other relationships. The burdens of early childbearing on disadvantaged teens are undeniable. Trying to untangle the factors which contribute to teenage pregnancy from its effects
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among adolescence. What comes into your mind when you hear the words Teenage Pregnancy? Well‚ as we all know‚ unintended pregnancy among female adolescents is a global phenomenon and it is rampant nowadays. Teenage pregnancy has also been found to cause psychological disturbance for some teenagers. For example‚ Clemens (2002) reported that teenager who had normal delivery later report and present with depressive symptoms. Approximately 750‚000 teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 19 become pregnant
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orthodox Indian society‚ a teen who became pregnant would be known for bringing “dishonour to your family and the infamous badge of dishonour would stick with the family. This made me wonder‚ what has changed in this world‚ that now makes a teen pregnancy a colossal problem. Or is because they now find their actions from decades ago a massive mistake and the social stigma they bring upon our society a non-literal way of saying “don’t fall into this trap”? I certainly feel this social stigma has influenced
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Pregnancy: The Effects of Alcohol and Substance Abuse on Fetal Development Natalie Fontanella Liberty University Online Abstract This paper examined the effects of alcohol and substance abuse on fetal development in expecting mothers. The critical periods of fetal development during pregnancy are reviewed and discussed in order to determine the effects alcohol and substance can cause during certain stages. In order to gain a more efficient understanding of the effects different substances
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