Maternal mortality factors and consequences of pregnant adolescentsin the Velasco Ibarra School
Journal Title: Más Vita - Year 2019, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Teenage pregnancy is something that has been happening for a long time, however, in recent years, it has reduced its magnitude, but the most serious is that it occurs at increasingly lower ages. The constant preoccupation of the developing and developed countries, it is without a doubt, the high incidence of this situation in maternal mortality. Objective: Identify the factors that affect the existence of pregnancies at such an early age and, in addition, know what the consequences of having a teenage pregnanc y are. Methodology: the non-experimental design method, of documentary and descriptive type, was use. Different official statistical sources were review. As a population, adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years were take it. Results: among the most outstanding results is that between 2009 and 2013 there was an increase in the number of pregnant teenagers, reducing this trend in 2014. As to terms of pregnancy ages, it was find that between 10 and 14 ages the rate of pregnant women has remained between two and 3 cases per 1000 prevalenc e. Conclusions: the age in which there is a higher prevalenc e of pregnant adolescents is the age between 15 to 19 years of age, unlike the corresponding age between 10 to 14 years, according to statistical data from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC)
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Silvia Maribel Auqui - González
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