[Pregnancy in young girls].
More and increasingly young adolescents are sexually active and pay less or no attention to contraception. The pregnancy rate among adolescents has been definitely increasing in recent years and especially among the youngest. This entails a large proportion of medicosomatic and also psychosocial risks such as premature labour and delivery as well as social disadvantages. Moreover, abortions have greatly increased. e.g. by 20% in 2001. Among the causes besides earlier maturity we may assume inadequate sex education falling short of cognitive capacity and emotional needs as well as difficult social problems with deficiencies in tenderness requirements and poor prospects of vocational training and professional career 8 examples, case reports). The overall situation pre-programmes medium-term and long-term consequences such as deficient school education and training, financial dependence and excessive financial and emotional strain on mother and child. A considerable gap in this regard can be filled by medical health promotion in step with physical and mental development, as well as by primary and secondary prevention in respect of information deficits, within the framework of a sound relationship of trust and reliability between the physician and the (female) patient.
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Klinik für Geburtsmedizin, Charité-Virchow-Klinikum, HU Berlin, Arztliche Gesellschaft zur Gesundheitsförderung der Frau e. V. (AGGF). christine.klapp@charite.de
D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000453:epidemiology; D000293:Adolescent; D004493:Education; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000502:physiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*