Gravidez na adolescência um estudo de revisão de literatura

Abstract

T Teenage pregnancy is fairly explored in literature and experienced in the workplace, deserving a differentiated attention by characterized as a public health problem. This work seeks to identify in the literature the main causes of teenage pregnancy and its major consequences. A review was conducted of narrative literature, where it consists of articles published in the SCIELO database for the period 2002 to 2011. Teenage pregnancy is mainly related to economic and social issues and deserves greater attention, since, has high risk of morbidity and maternal and child mortality and mean a possible event d restructuring life of adolescents and their families. The results reaffirm that the nurse has a key role in adolescent health, and consequently the prevention of pregnancy of adolescence, and act as an educator, transformer, emancipating and liberator, craving the behavioral change of population assisted by him, contributing to a better level of health.