Gravidez na adolescência: fatores, impactos e políticas públicas

Abstract

This work aims to discuss teenage pregnancy as a problem from the perspective of the aspects and factors that involve it. Through social indicators, the reading of the problem is done in the search for measures that contribute to its attenuation, one of which is the State Public Policies. impacts on society. What corresponds to the specific objectives are: to briefly analyze some complexities of the adolescence period; present the problems arising from teenage pregnancy – from an individual and social point of view; to investigate the origin of State policies regarding the care of pregnant adolescents, as well as the prevention of pregnancy. From the methodological aspect is the survey, reading and analysis based on scientific articles and statistical data corresponding to the theme. This work is justified by the peculiarities that the incidence of teenage pregnancy brings to these adolescent women and the way in which the structure of society tends to intervene in this issue. The conclusive character is based on the understanding that society's demands tend to seek specific views and that the functioning of society's sectors must be correlated for effective functioning, including in the long term, such as education and health.