Gravidez na adolescência: um problema sócio-cultural

Abstract

The teenage pregnancy is a public health problem in Brazil and other countries in the world. A challenge for dealing with this involves an introduction of preventive actions, continuous and systematically. So, there is emphasized the importance of Health Family Program - PSF that must search to identify the factors that take place with the use of contraceptive methods and the incidence of teenage pregnancy. The main aim of the study is identify, from the bibliography, associated factors to the use of contraceptive methods and teenage pregnancy and describe this phenomenon in Campos Gerais, MG. The bibliography revision offered elements that would be useful for defining education strategies to prevent the adolescence pregnancy prevention in the context of the PSF in Campos Gerais.