Adolescent Pregnancy: Problems of the Adolescent Health in the Next Decade

Abstract

In recent decades adolescent pregnancy has become an important health issue in a great number of countries. The incidence of adolescent pregnancy and adolescent birth is increasingly year by year. Adolescent pregnancy is not only affect individual health but also public health and society as a whole. There are many consequences following their pregnancy such as unsafe abortion, lack of antenatal care, STDs and HIV in pregnancy and anemia. To provide health service and sexual counseling for adolescents as well as family planning should be the measures to prevent adolescent pregnancy.