Impact of a social support program on teenage prenatal care use and pregnancy outcomes

Adolescent pregnancy in Upper Egypt

“…Adolescent pregnancy is often associated with poor reproductive outcome (especially preterm delivery) [1,2], intrauterine growth restriction [3], and increased risk of neonatal mortality [15], although some studies have not demonstrated these adverse effects-particularly following adequate prenatal care [19,20].…”

Community Health Worker Intervention to Decrease Cervical Cancer Disparities in Hispanic Women

“…Examples of CHW roles include providing health education, performing patient navigation, and directly delivering medical services, such as immunizations 26 . CHW programs have targeted many diseases-diabetes 27-30 , cancer [31][32][33][34][35] , cardiovascular disease [36][37][38][39] , and asthma [40][41][42][43][44] in addition to focusing on general health promotion 45 and maternal/child health [46][47][48] .…”

Adolescent Pregnancy and Smoking in West Virginia: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) 2005–2010

“…These poor health outcomes may be explained by possible biological factors and psychological immaturity for reproduction [9] in addition to the socioeconomic factors [9,19]. Some researchers argue that biological factors such as age or maternal growth are not a risk factor, and that unfavorable outcomes are more likely associated with the lack of parenting skills, social support, and socioeconomic and lifestyle factors [32,40]. However, other researchers have found that adolescents have higher rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes compared to adult women even after controlling for socioeconomic factors [3,9,13,19].…”

“…Moreover, adolescent motherhood may compound these socioeconomic disadvantages by increasing the risks of additional adverse socioeconomic problems as well as poor health outcomes for the mother and the infant [20,35]. Evidence shows that adolescents at greatest risk for pregnancy are more likely to live in areas with low socioeconomic status, high residential turnover, parental low education, more likely to have parents that have experienced a divorce or to have never married, and to have mothers or older sisters that have given birth as adolescents [9,19,32,40]. Adolescent childbearing costs the US taxpayers billions of dollars due to increased public assistance payment, greater expenditures for public health care, foster care, criminal justice services, and lost tax revenue [21].…”