Maternal mortality factors and consequences of pregnant adolescents in the Velasco Ibarra School

Abstract

Introduction: Teenage pregnancy is something that has been happening for a long time, however, in recent years, it has reduced its magnitude, but the most serious is that it occurs at increasingly lower ages. The constant preoccupation of the developing and developed countries, it is without a doubt, the high incidence of this situation in maternal mortality. Objective: Identify the factors that affect the existence of pregnancies at such an early age and, in addition, know what the consequences of having a teenage pregnancy are. Methodology: the non-experimental design method, of documentary and descriptive type, was use. Different official statistical sources were review. As a population, adolescents aged between 10 and 19 years were take it. Results: among the most outstanding results is that
between 2009 and 2013 there was an increase in the number of pregnant teenagers, reducing this trend in 2014. As to terms of pregnancy ages, it was find that between 10 and 14 ages the rate of pregnant women has remained between two and 3 cases per 1000 prevalence. Conclusions: the age in which there is a higher prevalence of pregnant adolescents is the age between 15 to 19 years of age, unlike the corresponding age between 10 to 14 years, according to statistical data from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC).