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Pregnancy in adolescence: incidence and outcome in European countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

J. P. Deschamps  and
G. Valantin
J. P. Deschamps
Affiliation:
University of Nancy, France
G. Valantin
Affiliation:
University of Nancy, France
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Pregnancy in adolescence is now a very great concern for doctors, teachers and social workers throughout the world and yet about 95% of the publications on this topic have come from the USA. The remainder are mainly from the UK and Scandinavia. Other countries have produced only a small number of papers, focusing mainly on clinical problems such as the pathological events and complications during pregnancy or delivery. In France, the first paper to appear in a paediatric journal was published in 1977 in the French journal of school health (Martin, 1977). On the other hand, teenage magazines often contain articles about sexual behaviour and pregnancy in adolescence. There is now a great concern in the adolescents' press about the problems of sexuality, contraception, abortion and pregnancy, including advertising for pregnancy tests.

Type
II. Teenage pregnancy—incidence and outcome
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 10 , supplement S5: Fertility in Adolescence , 1978 , pp. 101 - 116
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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