Finding from some studies have indicated that low birth weight have a greater risk of encountering health problems during their first weeks of life and that these problems may lead to death during the neonatal or post-neonatal periods. This study analyzed the effect of adolescent marriage (or strictly speaking adolescent pregnancy) on the risk of low birth weight. Data for this study are drawn …
A five years (January 1991 through December 1995) study on teenager pregnancy which occured in 15 to 19 years-old adolescents has been conducted in Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung. During the period we found 125 cases of teenage pregnancy or 0.76 percent of the total labor assisted. Fifty-four (43.6 percent) of the cases were with anemia, 28 (21.4 percent) had preeclampsia/eclampsia and 10 case…