• Reducing maternal mortality depends crucially upon ensuring that women have access to high-quality care before, during and after childbirth. (who.int)
  • The key changes introduced by the Global Strategy are the adoption of a health system-oriented, integrated, multisectoral approach to maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programming. (who.int)
  • WHO Somalia supported the Ministry to revise (and cost the operational plan for) the National Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) Strategy for 2023-2027. (who.int)
  • Dr Al-Umra Umar, Programme Lead for RMNCAH at WHO Somalia, welcomed the validation of the National RMNCAH Strategy, and added: "To tackle the high maternal and neonatal as well as under-five mortality, we urge the donor community to step up and help WHO streamline and reform the health sector by investing in an evidence-based and women-centred futuristic roadmap. (who.int)
  • Adolescent pregnancies are a major public health problem in low- and middle-income countries, causing many poor health outcomes such as maternal mortality and health issues for infants 1 , 2 . (rrh.org.au)
  • Pregnancy and childbearing in adolescence contribute to increased risks of maternal mortality and morbidity, especially in very young adolescents. (cdc.gov)
  • The article describes adolescent pregnancy worldwide and the high risk situations that occur due to the decrease in maternal age. (essays.io)
  • Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death for girls aged 15-19 worldwide, and low- and middle-income countries account for 99% of maternal deaths worldwide among women aged 15-49. (who.int)
  • Adolescents' growth, health, nutrition, human capital, and societal significance are not only important for their own wellbeing, but also for ensuring optimal maternal health and birth outcomes for themselves and their families now and later in life. (spring-nutrition.org)
  • The importance of meeting women's nutritional needs before pregnancy, maternal and fetal nutritional needs during pregnancy, and the nutritional needs of women and their children during the first two years of life is widely recognized. (spring-nutrition.org)
  • Previous literature has documented the impact anti-black racism, Accepted: 15 March 2023 and prejudice practices have on access to quality care and, thus, maternal health and birth Published: 30 March 2023 outcomes [1-3]. (deepdyve.com)
  • The maternal mortality ratio for 2020 was estimated at 72.1 deaths per 100 000 live births, a reduction of 5.5% from the estimated value for 2000 (Figure 5). (paho.org)
  • The National Primary Health care Development Agency (NPHDA) has disclosed that 3,027 out of 121,396 pregnant women were tested HIV positive during the first round of the Maternal and Newborn Child Health (MNCH) Week. (thenationonlineng.net)
  • A representative of the Agency, Victoria Azodoh made this disclosure at the three day seminar on Reproductive, Maternal, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH+N) for Wives of North Central Governors in Minna. (thenationonlineng.net)
  • She urged wives of governors across the nation to find ground to address maternal and child mortality in their states and champion the commitment of Maternal, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH+N) in the states. (thenationonlineng.net)
  • Rates of adolescent pregnancy are increasing in developing countries, with higher occurrences of adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Factors associated with adolescent pregnancy include rural residence (OR: 2.04), ever married (OR: 20.67), not attending school (OR: 2.49), no maternal education (OR: 1.88), no father's education (OR: 1.65), and lack of parent to adolescent communication on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) issues (OR: 2.88). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Adverse outcomes such as preterm birth, low infant birth weight, and poor maternal-infant attachment may result from perinatal depression. (uthscsa.edu)
  • Unintended pregnancies, particularly those leading to unintended births, can have negative consequences such as delayed prenatal care, poor birth outcomes, poor maternal-child relationships, and increased economic burden. (nih.gov)
  • Adolescent pregnancy, which occurs amongst adolescent girls aged between 10 and 19 years, is associated with various public health concerns and increased risks of maternal mortality, low birthweight, and other severe neonatal complications ( 2 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Adolescent pregnancy remains a major determining factor of maternal and child mortality, and to vicious cycles of poverty and ill-health. (fortunepublish.com)
  • Childbirth complications and Pregnancy and are the leading cause of death among 15-19 year-old girls globally, with low and middle-income countries accounting for 99% of global maternal deaths of women aged 15-49 years [6]. (fortunepublish.com)
  • The project focused on improving health and nutrition behaviors at the household level through promotion of Essential Nutrition and Hygiene Actions (EN/HA), particularly Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN), and addressing other determinants of under-nutrition, such as availability of and access to food, hygiene, quality of health care, child spacing and socio-cultural factors including gender and marginalization. (thecompassforsbc.org)
  • Adolescent pregnancy increases the risks of maternal complications during and after pregnancy. (nursingwritings.com)
  • Closure of the quality gap through the provision of effective care for all women and newborn babies delivering in facilities could prevent an estimated 113,000 maternal deaths, 531,000 stillbirths, and 1·325 million neonatal deaths annually by 2020 at an estimated running cost of US$4·5 billion per year (US$0·9 per person). (nih.gov)
  • As part of the China-Anhui Birth Cohort study, maternal sociodemographic characteristics, food intake, lifestyle, information on vitamin D supplementation, and birth outcomes were prospectively collected. (medscape.com)
  • [ 7 , 8 ] Thus, maternal levels of vitamin D during pregnancy determined the vitamin D status at birth and during early life in offspring. (medscape.com)
  • 30 years ago demonstrated that maternal vitamin D supplementation at a dose of 1000 IU/d in Asian women during the third trimester led to a nonsignificant reduction in the rate of SGA. (medscape.com)
  • In Turkey, due to the country's cultural structure, social norms and a number of traditions, marriage of children, and adolescent pregnancies, continue to be widely seen in some regions 5 . (rrh.org.au)
  • In Africa, where premarital sex is not accepted, especially for young women, unintended pregnancies mostly happen outside marriage. (cdc.gov)
  • African countries lead the world in teen pregnancies, with Niger on the top list of 203.6 births/100,000 teenage women, followed by Mali (175.4), Angola (166.6), Mozambique (142.5), Guinea (141.6), Chad (137.1), Malawi (136.9), and Cote d’Ivoire (135.4). (cdc.gov)
  • Across sub-Saharan Africa, it is estimated that 14 million unintended pregnancies occur every year, with almost half occurring among women aged 15–24 years. (cdc.gov)
  • While some parents agreed that poverty and school dropout or COVID-19 related school closure could lead to early pregnancies, most considered stubbornness, failure to adhere to abstinence advice and peer influence as responsible for adolescent pregnancies. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Based on these findings, preventing unintended pregnancies will require altering community attitudes about young people's use of contraceptives and engaging parents, education sector, civil society organizations and community and religious leaders to develop comprehensive sexuality education programs to empower in- and out-of school adolescents. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, adolescent pregnancies are highest in low and middle-income countries, with an estimated 12 million births among girls 15 to 19 years and 777,000 among girls younger than 15 years annually. (biomedcentral.com)
  • About 10 million of these births result from unintended pregnancies. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It is estimated that adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have approximately 21 million pregnancies each year ( 1 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Adolescent pregnancies are therefore a significant health concern and have been recognised as a key objective in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ( 5 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Existing data on the contributing factors for adolescent pregnancies in SSA emanate from country specific studies and collective data is limited. (frontiersin.org)
  • It has also been suggested that lower levels of education may be associated with adolescent pregnancies. (frontiersin.org)
  • Early and unintended pregnancies among adolescents are associated with several adverse healths, educational, social and economic outcomes. (researchkey.net)
  • Early adolescence is considered the optimal age of vaccination to prevent possible HPV infections as numerous studies that shown that early sexual debut (sexual intercourse at or before the age of 15 years ) is common, as the high number of teenage pregnancies ( over 13,000 girls dropping out of school annually) and the the rise in the number of new HIV diagnoses among adolescents indicates . (theelephant.info)
  • These programmes would be able to enhance a more practical response to addressing adolescent pregnancies and thus guide the progress towards curbing its incidence in Cameroon and particularly in the study area. (fortunepublish.com)
  • Despite this general progress, as the worlds' population of adolescent girls continues to grow, probability models indicate the number of adolescent pregnancies will increase globally by the year-2030, with the greatest proportional increases in Central, West, Southern and Eastern Africa [3]. (fortunepublish.com)
  • The number of adolescent pregnancies was increasing year in year out, and abortion remained one of the favored "methods" of family planning. (socialhistory.org)
  • Where permitted by law, adolescents who opt to terminate their pregnancies should have access to safe abortion. (blogspot.com)
  • WHO in 2014 report showed that the global adolescent birth rate was 49 per 1000 girls aged 15 to 19 years old[11]. (researchkey.net)
  • Though the global adolescent birth rate has reduced from 65 births/1000 women in 1990 to 47 births/1000 women in 2015 [3], there still remain a huge public health gap to fill. (fortunepublish.com)
  • The UN Population Division puts the global adolescent birth rate in 2015 at 44 births per 1000 girls this age - country rates range from 1 to over 200 births per 1000 girls (1) . (blogspot.com)
  • Globally, the second leading cause of death in females aged 15 to 19 is complications occurring during pregnancy or delivery. (mhmedical.com)
  • They also have an unfavourable impact on the mental, physical, and social wellbeing of adolescents, and remain a leading cause of death among adolescent girls globally ( 2 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Although a decline in adolescent birth rates (ABR) has been observed globally, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to have twice the global average, with over 100 births per 1,000 women, in 2021 ( 3 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Globally, there has been a decline in under-five deaths (U5D) from 93 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 38 deaths per 1000 live births in 2019 [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Globally, there are 44 births per 1000 to girls aged 15 to 19 per year. (blogspot.com)
  • The world has made remarkable progress in reducing child mortality since 1990, with the global under-five mortality rate dropping from 93 per 1000 live births to 39 per 1000 live births in 2017. (who.int)
  • Somalia has some of the highest rates of neonatal and under-five mortality in the world, with an under-five mortality rate of 117 per 1000 live births. (who.int)
  • Infant mortality rate is the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year. (nationmaster.com)
  • In 2019, the overall tuberculosis mortality rate (age-adjusted and per 100 000 population) was 2.2 (1.3 in women and 3.1 in men). (paho.org)
  • The under-five mortality rate was 41 deaths per 1000 live births in LMIC as compared to 5 deaths per 1000 live births in high-income countries in 2019 [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 1000 live births respectively by 2030.6 Achieving these targets would entail as much as a seven- fold reduction of the current rates in the Region. (who.int)
  • The numerator is the number of live births to women 15 to 19 years of age, and the denominator an estimate of exposure to childbearing by women 15 to 19 years of age. (who.int)
  • a) In the case of civil registration the numerator is the registered number of live-births born to women 15 to 19 years of age during a given year, and the denominator is the estimated or enumerated population of women aged 15 to 19 years. (who.int)
  • Number of live births to women aged 15−19 years. (who.int)
  • Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. (nationmaster.com)
  • The crude birth rate is the number of live births for every 1,000 people. (nationmaster.com)
  • Total number of live births. (nationmaster.com)
  • A live birth refers to a birth after which the baby shows signs of life, however, if the baby dies after showing signs of life, it is still considered a live birth. (nationmaster.com)
  • Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with current age-specific fertility rates. (nationmaster.com)
  • In the specific case of adolescent fertility, there was a 50.9% decrease, from 86.4 live births per 1000 women aged 15 to 19 years in 2000 to 42.4 in 2023. (paho.org)
  • Aisha Buhari who was represented by former deputy Governor of Plateau state, Chief Pauline Tallen said that the situation whereby the nation records 120 deaths per 1000 live birth is unacceptable and needs to be addressed. (thenationonlineng.net)
  • As Gilboa points out, the prevalence of CHD at birth is approximately eight to 10 per 1000 live births. (medscape.com)
  • The 47,XYY syndrome occurs in approximately 1/1000 live male births. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Turner's syndrome occurs in approximately one out of every 2,500 live births. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The outcome variable was U5D among live births within 0 to 59 months of birth. (biomedcentral.com)
  • According to the incomplete data, the number of abortions reached the approximate number of 350 000 in 1980, which averaged over 900 abortions per 1000 live births. (socialhistory.org)
  • The females form social groups together with the adolescents, while males usually live lonely. (7-oceans.org)
  • It is a conditional cash transfer scheme for pregnant and lactating women of 19 years of age or above for the first live birth. (legacyias.com)
  • Children born to adolescent mothers are more susceptible to premature birth, low birth weight, and other adverse birth outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • Number of mothers who died giving birth, out of 100,000 births. (nationmaster.com)
  • So that 60 of each 1000 girls from 10 to 19 years of age become mothers, the equivalent to the birth of 17 million new born, on average, each year. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 2017, approximately 194,377 babies were born to teen mothers aged 15 - 19, comprising a birth rate of 18.8 per 1000 teens. (llu.edu)
  • Profile means that abortions can only be performed on women who have experienced rape or an Ancestral conception along with the termination of a baby that may affect the mothers health. (benjaminbarber.org)
  • However, less than half of Hispanic adolescent mothers who experience perinatal depression receive treatment. (uthscsa.edu)
  • Adolescent girls may also become pregnant intentionally to receive government support grants intended for teenage mothers, without considering the consequences of their actions ( 12 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Child mothers (aged 10-19 years) face higher risks of puerperal endometritis, eclampsia and systemic infections than women aged 20-24 years [7]. (fortunepublish.com)
  • Newborns born to child mothers are also at greater risk of having low neonate birth weight, with long-term potential effects [8]. (fortunepublish.com)
  • 9], reported that knowledge on sexo-reproductive health issues is low among adolescent girls, including both child mothers as well as pregnant adolescents with majority of them obtaining information on sexo-reproductive health from their peers. (fortunepublish.com)
  • There is an issue that 1000 day mothers and their husbands do not think about birth spacing, they are not aware about the FP methods for Spacing. (thecompassforsbc.org)
  • Infants born to teenage mothers have an increased likelihood of a low birth rate owing to behavioral and psychological elements affecting them. (nursingwritings.com)
  • These resources are essential to promoting teenage mothers' health and preventing more young births in the community. (nursingwritings.com)
  • POSHAN Abhiyaan launched in 2018 aims at improving the nutritional status of Children from 0-6 years, Adolescent Girls, Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers. (legacyias.com)
  • Beneficiaries of these centers will be Children in the age group of zero to six years, and pregnant women and lactating mothers. (legacyias.com)
  • All Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers (PW&LM), excluding those who are in regular employment with the Central Government or the State Governments or PSUs or those who are in receipt of similar benefits under any law for the time being in force are the target beneficiaries including PW&LM who have their pregnancy on or after 1st January 2017 for the first child in the family. (legacyias.com)
  • The current preliminary rate of 22.3 per 1000 females aged 15 to 19 years is the lowest recorded rate. (mhmedical.com)
  • 15-19 years every year, representing 44 births per 1000 adolescent girls. (who.int)
  • 99 births per 1000 adolescent girls). (who.int)
  • Syrian women and girls still experience challenges in their day-to-day lives, for example in the area of law and health care. (wikipedia.org)
  • Life is harsh for many girls and women in the country. (who.int)
  • One in 1000 girls and women of reproductive age (15-49 years) die due to pregnancy or birth-related complications. (who.int)
  • According to WHO data, approximately 21 million women between the ages of 15 and 19 years, and an estimated 1.5 per 1000 girls between 10 and 14 years, are known to conceive in developing countries every year 2 , 3 . (rrh.org.au)
  • BACKGROUND: Gender inequality is high in Latin America (LA). Empowering girls and young women and reducing gender gaps has been proposed as a pathway to reduce adolescent pregnancy. (bvsalud.org)
  • WHO WHO has provided technical and financial support for the introduction and roll out the HPV vaccine amongst girls aged 9-14 years in response to prevention of cervical cancer which is the leading cancer in the country in women aged 15-44 years. (who.int)
  • Approximately 16 million adolescent girls aged 15–19 years and 2 million adolescents under the age of 15 years give birth annually in the world. (cdc.gov)
  • Recent data indicate that 18% of adolescent girls aged 15–19 years in eastern/southern region of Africa and 21% in western/central region of Africa had initiated childbearing. (cdc.gov)
  • Adolescents-both boys and girls-play an important yet often overlooked role in family health and nutrition. (spring-nutrition.org)
  • There is no data on the corresponding incarcerated adolescent population, but a national survey involving 261 correctional facilities estimated housing between 1 and 5 pregnant girls every day. (llu.edu)
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) underpins the rights women and girls have to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • However, women and girls, especially in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings (FCV) and persons with disabilities do not have the freedom to make decisions about their bodies and face poor access to services that meet their sexual and reproductive health needs. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • SFH's goal is to create an enabling environment for adolescent girls to make informed decisions about their reproductive health. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • Adolescent girls are reached during outreach programmes and are referred to the health facility to receive services. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • To mitigate this, Dr Anyanti recommended that sensitive cultural needs should be addressed so that adolescent girls have the tools they need, to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • Applauding the Future Assured Initiative of the Aisha Buhari Foundation, she said that the vision of wives of the governors is to ensure that no woman does from pregnancy related causes and to create awareness and opportunity for women and girls to realize their full potential in an environment that is safe for pregnancy and childbirth. (thenationonlineng.net)
  • Adolescent pregnancy is defined as the occurrence of pregnancy in girls aged 10 to 19. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We interviewed 18 pregnant and parenting adolescent girls, 10 parenting adolescent boys, and 16 parents/guardians of pregnant and parenting adolescents. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It highlights how parents and adolescents hold different views on reasons for early and unintended pregnancy, and documents how divergent views between girls and their parents may contribute to the lack of progress in reducing adolescent childbearing. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Adolescent pregnancy is a major public health problem worldwide, with 42.5 births per 1,000 girls aged 15-19 years in 2021 [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The highest adolescent pregnancy rates are in East, West and Central, and Southern Africa, with 98 births per 1000 girls [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Between 2017 and 2021, births among girls aged 10-14 years and 15-19 years increased in SA by 48.7% and 17.9% respectively, and are likely to increase ( 16 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • In Niger, Mali, and Chad, where the adolescent fertility rates are amongst the highest in the world, the expected years of schooling attained by girls between the ages of 4 and 17 is fewer than seven years ( 2 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • According to World Health Organization(WHO), about16 million girls aging between 15 and 19 years and about, one million girls younger than 15 years give birth every year[9],[10]. (researchkey.net)
  • therefore, complications during pregnancy, birth and postpartum phase are the second cause of death among girls aging between 15 and 19 years worldwide. (researchkey.net)
  • It is estimated that about 16 million girls 15-19 years old give birth each year, contributing nearly 11% of all births worldwide [13]. (researchkey.net)
  • During the launch of the vaccine, Dr Rose Jalang'o of the National Vaccines and Immunisation Programme said the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination would target adolescent girls aged 14 years and thereafter continue vaccination routinely targeting those aged 10 years. (theelephant.info)
  • Since HPV vaccines are prophylactic, the largest impact of vaccination on the incidence of cervical cancer is expected to result from high coverage of young adolescent girls before first sexual contact," Dr Jalang'o noted. (theelephant.info)
  • A retrospective record of adolescent girls who attended the general gynaecology outpatient departments as well as family planning units of six health facilities in the Kumbo West Health District of Cameroon were reviewed for a 5 year period (2012-2017). (fortunepublish.com)
  • Within the study period (2012-2017), out of 950 records, 886 adolescent girls visited the general gynaecology outpatient departments for pregnancy issues. (fortunepublish.com)
  • We got a total of 750 recorded confirmed cases of adolescent pregnancy over the years out of a total of population of 25120 adolescent girls that make up the Kumbo West Health District (KWHD) population. (fortunepublish.com)
  • In the same light, an estimate of 16 million girls aged 15-19 years and 2.5 million girls under the age 16 years give birth in these developing countries of the world [2]. (fortunepublish.com)
  • Furthermore, the emotional, psychological and social needs of pregnant adolescent girls can be greater than those of other women [1]. (fortunepublish.com)
  • Adolescent girls and young moms under ' Secure Futures ' program had a privilege of being visited by nurses from Bahati health care Centre, a local hospital that has forged a partnership with VAP as one of its referral points. (globalgiving.org)
  • Through Employment +Entrepreneurship project, VAP has been propelling girls and young women into employment and entrepreneurship opportunities with the foundation of vocational training courses. (globalgiving.org)
  • Some 11% of all births worldwide are to girls aged 15-19 years, and the vast majority of these births are in low- and middle-income countries. (blogspot.com)
  • Better access to contraceptive information and services can reduce the number of girls becoming pregnant and giving birth at too young an age. (blogspot.com)
  • It also targets stunting, under-nutrition, anaemia (among young children, women and adolescent girls) and low birth rate. (legacyias.com)
  • WFP, Anthrologica (2018): Bridging the Gap: Engaging Adolescents for Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Development. (spring-nutrition.org)
  • In 2018, 99.5% of births were attended by skilled birth personnel. (paho.org)
  • Between 2010 and 2015, CDC, the Federal Office of Adolescent Health (OAH), and the Office of Population Affairs partnered to showcase the importance of innovation, multi module community programs for controlling the rate of adolescent pregnancy and births (CDC, 2018). (nursingwritings.com)
  • According to World Bank data from 2021, there were around 10.6 million women in Syria. (wikipedia.org)
  • The estimated actual number of births among 15-19-year-olds was 6 114 000 and 332 000 among younger adolescents aged 10-14 years in SSA in 2021 ( 3 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Nigeria, the country with the largest economy in Africa had an adolescent pregnancy rate of 106 adolescent births per 1,000 population in 2021 and shows an increasing trend ( 13 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • However, a few studies that combined data from single country studies on the determinants of adolescent pregnancy have been conducted ( 6 - 8 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Programs aimed at improving the contraceptive use, prevention of unintended pregnancy, prevention of early marriage and risk behavior reduction can reduce the high rate of adolescent pregnancy in Africa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Life expectancy at birth has increased from 52.7 years in 2000 to 64.5 years in 2019. (who.int)
  • Over time, women have a longer healthy life expectancy than men, 57.1 years versus 55 years respectively in 2019. (who.int)
  • When the human papillomavirus vaccine was introduced in Kenya in 2019, it presented an opportunity to deal a death blow to cervical cancer, the second most frequent cancer among Kenyan women (after breast cancer), and the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in Kenya. (theelephant.info)
  • The website provides statistical data illustrating the adolescent fertility rates for women aged 15-19 worldwide. (essays.io)
  • Despite high fertility rates, there is limited mental health information among Hispanic adolescents during the perinatal period. (uthscsa.edu)
  • In the African Region, it remains high with 4.5 children per woman in 2017. (who.int)
  • However, the rate has declined over the past 30 years, from an average of 6.6 to 4.5 children per woman in the Region between 1980 and 2017. (who.int)
  • Numerous reports, strategies, and guidelines issued over the past fi ve years (see box 1) and the papers prepared for the recent Adolescent Nutrition Stakeholder Consultation held in October 2017 have identifi ed both the needs and opportunities for investing in adolescent health and nutrition. (spring-nutrition.org)
  • Recto, P & Champion, JD 2017, ' Assessment of Mental Health Literacy among Perinatal Hispanic Adolescents ', Issues in Mental Health Nursing , vol. 38, no. 12, pp. 1030-1038. (uthscsa.edu)
  • Adolescents and adults, especially women, also can present with transient arthritis. (cdc.gov)
  • However, adolescents and emerging adults intersect with multiple assaults on their health and well-being due to gender inequity and racism. (deepdyve.com)
  • This study evaluates the measurement, operationalization, and quality of research conducted on adolescents and emerging adults that analyzed the use of LARC within the social determinant of health framework (SDOH) in Citation: Poehling, C. (deepdyve.com)
  • Researchers found the insuf﫿cient measurement of race, ethnicity, Scoping Review of the Measurement sexuality, and gender among studies on LARC and SDOH in adolescents and emerging adults. (deepdyve.com)
  • Longer life expectancy for infants, adolescents, and adults living with CHD has important implications for their care. (medscape.com)
  • They also point out, however, that the US is poorly equipped to offer the kind of services that adolescents and adults with CHD require as they age. (medscape.com)
  • The risk for death from measles or its complications is greater for infants, young children, and adults than for older children and adolescents. (cdc.gov)
  • Overview of Behavioral Problems in Children Many behaviors exhibited by children or adolescents concern parents or other adults. (msdmanuals.com)
  • If you're planning an international trip, the World Health Organization recommends that adults or adolescents unsure of their immune status get a dose of measles vaccine before traveling," Dr. Tan added. (nj.gov)
  • Supporting nutrition in the first 1,000 days is known to improve fetal growth and birth outcomes, reduce stunting, improve economic prosperity, and, ultimately, save lives (Black et al. (spring-nutrition.org)
  • Implications for nursing practice are discussed to help improve mental health outcomes among pregnant and postpartum Hispanic adolescents. (uthscsa.edu)
  • The world's population of adolescents corresponds to more than a billion. (bvsalud.org)
  • Around 1.2 billion people, or 1 in 6 of the world's population, are adolescents aged 10 to 19. (blogspot.com)
  • Several sociodemographic factors like residence, marital status, educational status of adolescents, their mother's and father's, and parent to adolescent SRH communication were associated with adolescent pregnancy. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Collectively, these studies suggest that inter alia, socio economic status, lack of parental communication and support, early marriage, religion, and low educational status of adolescents are contributing factors. (frontiersin.org)
  • Thus, we recommend that psychiatric nurses take an active role in planning and implementing psychosocial interventions for pregnant adolescents and develop culture-specific interventions. (rrh.org.au)
  • Interventions that target these factors are important in reducing adolescent pregnancy. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Despite the many commitments, resolutions and decisions made by Member States to improve the health of women and children, only 12 countries achieved MDG Target 4,4 while two countries achieved MDG Target 5A and none achieved MDG Target 5B on universal access to reproductive health. (who.int)
  • More than 80% of the country's 3.8 million internally displaced people are women and children. (who.int)
  • For some countries with no other reliable data, the own-children method of indirect estimation provides estimates of the adolescent birth rate for a number of years before the census. (who.int)
  • Inflation of milk, vegetables, pulses directly affects nutrition security of urban poor woman and her children. (mrunal.org)
  • Rural women might have the help of grandparents / family elders / in-laws to take care of raising the children and dividing the domestic chores. (mrunal.org)
  • In 2023, there were 103.7 women per 100 men and 51.1 older people (65 years or older) per 100 children under 15 years of age, as can be seen in the country's population pyramids, distributed by age group and sex (Figure 1). (paho.org)
  • In relation to fertility, it is estimated that in 2023 women had an average of 1.6 children throughout their reproductive lives. (paho.org)
  • We believe that this workshop will equip you with the necessary tools to achieve your objectives of securing the future for women and children. (thenationonlineng.net)
  • Suaahara was a five year (2011-2016) project funded by USAID aimed to improve the nutritional status of women and children in 41 districts of Nepal. (thecompassforsbc.org)
  • Difficulties associated with accessing fundamental lifesaving care such as the skill of birth attendant, postnatal care, adequate dietary intake, and vaccinations against common childhood diseases also predispose children to the risk of dying before the age of five years. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Studies show that teenage pregnancy is mainly due to lack of adolescent-friendly services, inadequate comprehensive sexuality education, nonavailability and cost of contraceptives, inadequate health personnel, judgmental attitude of service providers, and inadequate counseling. (cdc.gov)
  • The World Health Organization reports a global average teenage birth rate among 15- to 19-year-olds of 49 births per 1000 females. (mhmedical.com)
  • The teenage birth rate in the United States has dramatically declined over the last 2 decades. (mhmedical.com)
  • The prevalence of the study, factors associated to teenage pregnancy will be used by policy makers to come up with strategies to limit or prevent teenage pregnancy among secondary school adolescent students in the BHD, SWR, Cameroon. (researchkey.net)
  • Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in a female adolescent or young adult under the age of 20 years. (researchkey.net)
  • Many of them lack access to basic health services such as psychosocial support, reproductive health services, child and adolescent health services, and support for survivors of gender-based violence. (who.int)
  • They offer comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services that enable women all over Nigeria to choose their reproductive health future through the various service delivery channels they offer. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • In her remarks, Dr Salma Ibrahim Anas-Kolo, the Director, Family Health Department in the Federal Ministry of Health, stated that the federal government is committed to ensuring that women have access to quality sexual and reproductive health services, at all levels of healthcare, especially at the community level. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • In the first session, Dr Jennifer Anyanti, the Deputy Managing Director at Society for Family Health (SFH), gave an overview of SFH's approach to adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Nigeria. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • Education also plays a vital role in scaling adolescent sexual and reproductive health. (nigeriahealthwatch.com)
  • Therefore, African countries and other non-governmental organizations need to address these factors and the multifaceted sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The few studies conducted on adolescent pregnancy in Africa present inconsistent and inconclusive findings on the distribution of the problems. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Overall, nearly one-fifth of adolescents become pregnant in Africa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Adolescent pregnancy has become a major public health problem, particularly in Africa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study, therefore, was conducted to estimate the prevalence and sociodemographic factors associated with adolescent pregnancy in Africa using published and unpublished studies. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Accordingly, almost one-fifth (18.8%) adolescent get pregnant in Africa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Previous studies on drivers of adolescent pregnancy in Africa have not fully considered the perspectives of parents/guardians vis-à-vis pregnant and parenting adolescents. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Studies from Ghana ( 9 ), South Africa ( 10 ) and Tanzania ( 11 ) demonstrate the relationship between poverty and coerced sexual relations with older men, as a means for adolescents to meet their basic financial needs. (frontiersin.org)
  • In contrast, in Burundi, which has the lowest gross domestic product per capita in Africa ( 17 ), the adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19) was 58/1,000 compared with the total fertility rate of 5.5/1,000 women in that country ( 18 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • With its advocacy of economic empowerment for young women through the platform of football, VAP was part of the delegation that was invited at the Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum ( AWIEF ) hosted at Cape Town International Convention Centre. (globalgiving.org)
  • In sub-Saharan Africa only 10% of young men and 15% of young women aged 15 to 24 are aware of their HIV status. (blogspot.com)
  • For infants from birth to 12 months, the Food and Nutrition Board established an Acceptable Intake (AI) for folate that is equivalent to the mean intake of folate in healthy, breastfed infants in the United States. (medlineplus.gov)
  • How many infants, out of 1000, who will die before attaining one year of age. (nationmaster.com)
  • These include adolescents' limited knowledge and access to contraceptives, poverty, sexual violence, school dropout, COVID-19 school closures, and being young and naively engaging in unprotected sex. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO), in accordance with the Health Ministry (HM), defines as an adolescent the people who correspond to the 10 to 19 age group, and may be divided in two stages: 10 to 14 years of age and 15 to 19 years of age. (bvsalud.org)
  • Estimated 1.2 million adolescents died in 2015, over 3000 every day, mostly from preventable or treatable causes. (blogspot.com)
  • More than 2 million adolescents are living with HIV. (blogspot.com)
  • Slowly but gradually, we have managed to assemble an accountable and measurable framework to help address the predicaments of Somalia's women, newborns and adolescents," she said. (who.int)
  • Eleven percent of all births worldwide are births between the ages of 15 and 19 years 3 , 4 . (rrh.org.au)
  • Adolescent fertility rate by Age group and Years. (statistica.md)
  • Annual number of births to women aged 15-19 years per 1,000 women in that age group. (who.int)
  • It is also referred to as the age-specific fertility rate for women aged 15-19 years. (who.int)
  • The numerator refers to births to women that were 15 to 19 years of age at the time of the birth during a reference period before the interview, and the denominator to person-years lived between the ages of 15 and 19 years by the interviewed women during the same reference period. (who.int)
  • Exposure to childbearing by women aged 15−19 years. (who.int)
  • 72 births for every 1000 young women aged 15–19 years. (cdc.gov)
  • Mid-range estimate for country's population increase due to births from five years prior to the given year. (nationmaster.com)
  • It includes different indicators (Adolescent birth rate (per 1000 women aged 15-19 years), Crude suicide rates (per 100 000 population) etc). (johnsnowlabs.com)
  • The statute of the child and the adolescent, through the Law number 8.069/90, defines that the adolescence corresponds to the period of life which ranges from 12 to 18 years of age 3 . (bvsalud.org)
  • This lack of access to appropriate care is often further exacerbated by domestic violence, mental illness, substance abuse, and pregnancy during adolescent years. (llu.edu)
  • Life expectancy at birth in 2023 was 76.2 years, lower than the average for the Region of the Americas and 6.4 years higher that in 2000. (paho.org)
  • The ease at which these youths are having abortions is portrayed in the 2011 survey carried out by 'The Independent', which states "that 30 % of woman who have an abortion are 14-19 years old. (benjaminbarber.org)
  • Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women aged 15 years to 44 years. (theelephant.info)
  • At the same time, 10.3 million women aged 15 years and above are at risk of developing the disease. (theelephant.info)
  • It is estimated that Mary was around 14 years old when the angel Gabriel informed her of the birth of the Lord in her womb, according to tradition (Ibid. (provenway.org)
  • Females become sexually mature at 7 years, males at 18 years. (7-oceans.org)
  • In general, male sperm whales only seek a female once every three years to reproduce. (7-oceans.org)
  • Adolescent pregnancy and childbearing have significantly reduced in the last ten years. (nursingwritings.com)
  • Based on data produced by the National Survey of Family Growth , 43% of first marriages by women aged 15-44 will end in a "disruption" within 15 years. (cdc.gov)
  • Pregnant women should take 600 micrograms a day, or 1000 micrograms a day if expecting twins. (medlineplus.gov)
  • According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women, thirty-eight states have failed to enact adequate healthcare policies, if any at all, for incarcerated pregnant women. (llu.edu)
  • 4 Forty one states have not instituted any standards for prenatal nutrition and thus have failed to provide adequate nutrition to their incarcerated pregnant women. (llu.edu)
  • Thus, 36 states have failed to stop the use of restraints on incarcerated pregnant women. (llu.edu)
  • I'd like to welcome you to today's COCA call, Updated Interim Zika Clinical Guidance for Pregnant Women in Data on Contraceptive Use to Decrease Zika-Affected Pregnancy. (cdc.gov)
  • She is involved in developing clinical guidance for healthcare providers caring for pregnant women and women of reproductive age with possible exposure to Zika virus. (cdc.gov)
  • Nineteen serotypes of this pathogen can cause infection in pregnant women and neonates. (analesdepediatria.org)
  • Rural women don't have social security either, but they're less prone to occupational disease because pesticide spraying is usually done by males. (mrunal.org)
  • Slightly more females than males were living with CHD in 2010, they add. (medscape.com)
  • Abnormalities that affect autosomes (the 22 paired chromosomes that are alike in males and females) are more common than those that affect. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The pituitary hormones are the same for males and females, but the gonadal hormones are different. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Kallman's syndrome (KS) is the most frequent cause of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and affects approximately one in 10,000 males and one in 50,000 females. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y chromosome . (encyclopedia.com)
  • The sperm whales reproduce continuously, and the females with their young and the normally solitary males are together all year round. (7-oceans.org)
  • Pregnant adult and adolescent women who have entered the United States criminal justice system are an extremely vulnerable population. (llu.edu)
  • It has also been estimated that around 3 - 4% of incarcerated adult women are pregnant at the time of commitment, and 75% of incarcerated adult women are of childbearing age. (llu.edu)
  • They also direct the adolescent maturation of sex organs into their adult form. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Before I began researching this question I understood that many young women think of an abortion as a quick fix, a sort of late birth control. (benjaminbarber.org)
  • While the Bible does not specify how old Mary was when she gave birth to Jesus, we may safely assume that she was a young lady at the time of his birth. (provenway.org)
  • For Young Parents is a community-based resource for sharing information on education and medical rights and parenting of adolescents currently continuing with their education (Child Welfare Information Gateway, n.d). (nursingwritings.com)
  • The league is backed up by a parallel league for male partners ( boyfriends and husbands of the young moms ) who are learning skills for positive masculinity, parenting and how to respect and support their women and families. (globalgiving.org)
  • Ediz Ç, Kavak Budak F. Effects of psychosocial support-based psychoeducation for Turkish pregnant adolescents on anxiety, depression and perceived social support: a randomized controlled study. (rrh.org.au)
  • In this study, a psychosocial support-based (PSSB) psychoeducation program was provided to pregnant adolescents for improving their mental health and providing them with knowledge and skills to make positive behavioral changes. (rrh.org.au)
  • Growing attention is being paid to the importance of adolescent health and nutrition. (spring-nutrition.org)
  • The rate of females over 25 with secondary education is 29.0 percent. (wikipedia.org)
  • The United States criminal justice system has recommended-but has largely failed to enact-guidelines for adequate prenatal and perinatal care for pregnant incarcerated women. (llu.edu)
  • According to the Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women, legislative bodies at both the state and federal levels as well as healthcare professionals involved in prenatal and perinatal care may be the most effective in improving healthcare standards for incarcerated women. (llu.edu)
  • Adolescent pregnancy can lead to many physical problems such as premature birth, cephalopelvic mismatch, fetal distress, bleeding, pre-eclampsia, urinary tract infection, fetal anomaly and presentation anomaly 7 . (rrh.org.au)
  • Measles infection in a pregnant woman can lead to miscarriage, premature birth or a low-birth-weight baby. (nj.gov)
  • So if we start off with a baby whose low birth weight, which itself is type in-utero malnutrition, that baby has a higher risk of mortality. (futurelearn.com)
  • This has implications, not only for adolescents' development, but also for the development of their future offspring, perpetuating intergenerational cycles of malnutrition. (spring-nutrition.org)
  • Prematurity, intrapartum-related events such as birth asphyxia and birth trauma, and neonatal sepsis accounted for almost three quarters of neonatal deaths. (who.int)
  • To meet Every Newborn targets of ten or fewer neonatal deaths and ten or fewer stillbirths per 1000 births in every country by 2035 will necessitate accelerated scale-up of the most effective care targeting major causes of newborn deaths. (nih.gov)
  • We investigated the associations of urban measures of women's empowerment and gender inequality with adolescent birth rates (ABR) in 366 Latin American cities in nine countries. (bvsalud.org)
  • Racial and ethnic minority women and low-income women experience notably high rates of unintended pregnancy. (nih.gov)
  • Though, teen birth rates are falling in every California county - sometimes dramatically. (nursingwritings.com)
  • Abortions In recent times are deemed as societal acceptable, which can have a negative impact on adolescent actions when abortions are so easily accessible to them. (benjaminbarber.org)
  • Per 1000 woman under 16 have abortions, 16. (benjaminbarber.org)
  • Considering the rate of legal abortions per 1000 women between the ages of 15 and 44, only the Soviet Union was ahead of Yugoslavia, while all other countries had a lower incidence. (socialhistory.org)
  • Access to antenatal and postnatal care is still very limited: only 24% of women receive the WHO-recommended 4 or more antenatal care sessions during their pregnancy. (who.int)
  • In 2015, an estimated 303 000 women worldwide died during pregnancy and childbirth. (who.int)
  • It provides a partial wage compensation to women for wage-loss during childbirth and childcare and to provide conditions for safe delivery and good nutrition and feeding practices. (legacyias.com)
  • According to the IBGE (Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics), in Brazil, in 2010, the female population corresponding to the 10 to 19 age group was approximately of 17 million 4 . (bvsalud.org)
  • This meant that some 247,000 women between the ages of 25 to 44 in the US were living with CHD in 2010 compared with approximately 157,000 men. (medscape.com)
  • 5 per 1000 woman under 18 have an abortion (The independent) these are astoundingly high results. (benjaminbarber.org)
  • It carries major health and social issues with unique medical and psychosocial consequences for both adolescents and society in general. (researchkey.net)