Research Paper on Health

assert that no social problem affecting youths has received as much attention in recent times as adolescent pregnancy. Literature shows that 13 million children are born to women under the age of 20 worldwide while 95% of the teenagers experience an unintended pregnancy. Increased Attention has finally been given to teenage pregnancy as a public health issue due to the realization of the abnormal prevalence, number of affected people, high levels of psychological distress, and high morbidity rates as well as the painfully apparent social and economic / public welfare cost of teenage childbearing and parenthood

Evaluation: I choose this article because it goes into details to describe why it’s unhealthy for teenage girls to start having kids when they are still teens. It shows what happen when young adults are not properly educated about sex. Therefore, teenage pregnancy is more common in less developed countries because they are not teaching kids how to properly protect themselves during sex. It tells us why it’s unhealthy for teenage girls to be having unprotected sex. And, also it shows us why teenagers are at a much have the rate of not serving labor than adults women are. I plan on using this article in my writing to inform my reader why it’s unhealthy for adolescents to be pregnant at such a young

The concept of “One Health” has recently become a topic of interest in veterinary medicine. One Health is the concept that animal, human and environmental health are closely linked. Understanding the impact animals have on the society is important for a veterinarian to understand. In my personal life, I have experienced many situations where veterinary medicine is closely aligned with public health. Traveling abroad to Mexico, Costa Rica and South Africa allowed me to experience how the health of the public is impacted by a large feral canine population. Littering the streets with excrement, carrying zoonotic diseases such as rabies and posing a serious bite risk, these feral canines pose a severe public health risk. Viewed as vermin and pests,

The United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the industrialized world. Each year, one out of three teenage girls becomes pregnant. Although teen pregnancy rates have dropped from 61.8 births per 1,000 in 1991 to 41.7 births per 1,000 in 2003, pregnancy rates in the U.S. still are declining at slower rates than those in other developed nations (Block et al., 2005. para, 1).

The regulation of adolescent fertility and pregnancy prevention forms one of the top priority issues in modern society. Globally there are more than 15 million girls between the ages of 15 and 19 who give birth every year, with an additional 5 million who have abortions (WHO, 2012). In South Africa alone approximately 5.6% of females aged 14-19 fell pregnant in the year of 2013. To put this into perspective it means 99 000 schoolgirls fell pregnant which approximates to 271 per day. This is an increase from the already high 68 000 adolescents who fell pregnant in the year 2011 (Statistics South Africa, 2014). With all of this combined with SA’s high burden of HIV impose a severe challenge to the health of the South African youth.

Teenagers are regarded as a young person whose age ranges from thirteen to nineteen years (WHO 2006). Psychologists also referred that this period in one’s life is adolescent period in which one is in transition between childhood behaviours and adult behaviour. Within this period, the teenager is faced with numerous developmental problems or risk, either fashioned by the adolescent is exposed to experimentation, curiosity and quest for freedom. These expectation largely results in unwanted pregnancy as stated by Noble (2007) as a girl-child pregnancy. In a related development according to WHO report, it was stated that in the United States of American, about 19% of adolescent give birth by twenty years of age.

One of the main ways of preventing teenage pregnancy is for males and females to use contraceptives. Although there are many types of birth control methods, there are some that are suitable for teenagers that are sexually active. First, a male can use a condom as a protective measure. Secondly, females can use several different methods that include oral contraception, contraceptive injection, contraceptive patch, and an intrauterine-device (IUD) are all ways to prevent pregnancy for those who are simply not ready to be parents. Since 2011, there has been a huge decline in teenage pregnancy between 15-17-year old’s from 44% of pregnancies to 26% because of the use of contraception (CDC YRBSS). In 2015, there were 58% of teenage girls who visited a birth control clinic in

Although there are a vast amount of teen pregnancies, the rates of teenage pregnancy are steadily decreasing each year. The birth rate has dropped by nine percent since the year of 2015 and it has dropped sixty-seven percent since 1991 (Scutti). Teenage pregnancy rates are steadily decreasing due to there being more, “access to contraceptives and use of contraceptives” (Berlan). Another reason for

On December 5th 2017, we arrived at The Mansion of Sandy Springs at 9:30am to set up for the Health fair. The class was divided into 3 groups (according to their respective topics for the health fair); Smoking cessation group, Nutrition group, Hypertension group. I was part of the smoking cessation group alongside with 6 other classmates- Anmarie, Josephine, Jennifer, Bolaji, Angelique, and Ifeoluwa. Our poster board consisted of pictures showing the effects of smoking in the older adult and their environment. As the seniors approached our table, we greeted and welcomed them and educated them on benefits of smoking cessation, how smoking cessation can improve their health. We also acknowledged the fact that it can be uneasy to quit smoking at once so educated them on nicotine replacement therapy that can prescribed by their primary physician. Staying healthy is very vital because most of these diseases know no age, a healthy lifestyle is the starting point to avoid getting disease and getting ill.

The aim of this report is to inform teenagers and parents about the facts of teenage pregnancy, how it affects people and the options if it happens to them.

Teen pregnancy is a well known concern across the world, not only in developing countries but with teenager 's in school in the western world. When families are faced with realities like these it is important that everyone is there for each other. This greatly impacts the teenager 's involved, their families, and the baby. So how does this issue affect everyone socially, emotionally, economically, and how does it affect the baby 's development? There are many support centres that can help families and teens to deal with the conflicts they have to face ahead of them.

Every day we see young pregnant women in households and on the streets, sometimes in schools, in shops and elsewhere. There are many factors that lead to increasingly early exercise of sexuality in adolescents and thus to early pregnancies. Pregnancy during adolescence is a topic of great interest in all sectors of society, and across the world. Adolescence is a period of life in which the individual acquires the reproductive capacity, psychologically passes from childhood to adulthood. Journal of Adolescent Health conducted research on pregnancy rates, outcomes of birth and abortion among 15-to 19 years old and 10- to 14-year olds in all countries (Gilda, 2015). The hypotheses of this research is that pregnancy accords in teenage girls between the ages of 10 to 19 years old, 95% of these births occur in low- and middle-income.

“Lifestyles impact health, wellness, and fitness more than any other factors” (Corbin, Welk, Corbin, & Welk, 2016, p. 500). Throughout this course, I have learned how my current lifestyle has increased my risk for health problems. Many of the lab findings reported frightening information, which lead me to recognizing the importance of taking care of myself through the use of physical activity, healthy eating, stress management, and environmental influences. The overall reason for changing my lifestyle behaviors is I want to feel good — physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I need all aspects of my life to coordinate with each other, so that I may live a long life to the fullest and serve the purpose God has for me. Of course, “Knowledge doesn’t translate to behavior” (Corbin, et al, 2016, p. 339). In other words, even though I may be more aware of our health risks, does not necessarily mean I will adhere to the changes to reduce those risks. Without action, knowledge is useless; therefore, I am making a commitment to myself.

“Adolescent pregnancy occurs in all societies, with considerable variation in magnitude and consequences among different countries and regions.” Teenage pregnancy is certainly not unheard of, all nations across the globe have

“However much a mother may love her children, it is all but impossible her to provide high-quality child care if she herself is poor and oppressed, illiterate and uninformed, anaemic and unhealthy, has five or six other children, lives in a slum or shanty, has neither clean