Maternal Mortality Due To Early Pregnancy

Maternal mortality due to early pregnancy

“Maternal mortality is one of the main causes of death in adolescents and young people from 15 to 24 years in the region. In 2014, about 1 died.900 adolescents and young people as a result of health problems during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.

Every year they become pregnant in the world 16.000.000 teenagers and 2.000.000 children under 15 years. The world rate is estimated at 46 births per 1.000 girls between 15 and 19 years old.

At the global level, the risk of maternal death doubles in pregnant women under 15 years in low and medium entering countries. Perinatal deaths are 50% higher among children under 20 years compared to those born of mothers from 20 to 29 years old."

This problem leaves a great variety of consequences which are interrupting with the adolescent stage of the young pregnant woman, generating a series of reflections on the relevance of the fact of not getting pregnant at an early age. Many influential causes are evident when thinking about why young women end up being mothers in their adolescence, not counting that sex education by parents is not the most effective in most cases, therefore, it is important to keep in mind that the issue of sexuality logically is part of the life of a teenager and therefore is due and is obliged to guide him.

That is why the proper sexual education that is encouraged from home and school is of the utmost importance, in order to decrease the number of early pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases at an early age, together with all the consequences that carry in lifeof the youngest.

Some possible solutions would be to encourage sex education in young people, either in schools or giving seminars, in addition to making contraceptive methods more accessible, which are procedures that prevent pregnancy in sexually active women, whether they or their couples who use them. These methods are easy to use. When the use of the method is easy, it is more likely to be able to use it correctly. Only the indications that they show must be followed precisely. Contraceptive methods are available for free in health services offices, and with different prices in pharmacies and doctors private consultations. In addition to the aforementioned, it must be taken into account that the capacity of a contraceptive method of protecting the user/or against pregnancy is measured by the failure rate of the method, that is, by the number of pregnancies that occur between 100 womenor couples who use a method for a year. For example: “In the case of the IUD (intrauterine device), the failure rate is 0.5%, that is, that one in 200 women who use IUD (intrauterine device) during a