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Fertility awareness methods may be used to avoid pregnancy, to achieve pregnancy, or as a way to monitor gynecological health. Methods of identifying infertile days have been known since antiquity, but scientific knowledge gained during the past century has increased the number, variety, and especially accuracy of methods.
The Ohio Youth Problems, Functioning, Satisfaction Scales (Ohio Scales) are a set of parent-reported [1] [2] and self-reported [3] questionnaires, consisting of four scales used to assess the improvement and outcomes of children and adolescents who have received mental health services.
Adolescent health creates a major global burden and has a great deal of additional and diverse complications compared to adult reproductive health such as early pregnancy and parenting issues, difficulties accessing contraception and safe abortions, lack of healthcare access, and high rates of HIV, sexually transmitted infections and mental health issues.
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The "safe period" method of fertility awareness is the most common family planning method used in India, although condoms are used by some. [35] Of all American women surveyed nationally in 2002, only 0.9% were using "periodic abstinence" (defined as "calendar rhythm" and "natural family planning") compared to 60.6% using other contraceptive ...
Sep. 9—Staff report The Appalachian region has higher rates of mental health issues than the rest of the United States, with the suicide rate being 17 percent higher than the national rate. In a ...
Infertility and childlessness stigmas are social and cultural codes that identify the inability to have children as a disgraceful state of being. Broadly speaking, in many cultures, "Demonstrating fertility is necessary to be considered a full adult, a real man or woman, and to leave a legacy after death," and thus the failure to make this demonstration is penalized. [1]
Adolescent fertility correlates strongly with poverty in African nations. The highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the world—143 per 1,000 girls aged 15–19 years—is in sub-Saharan Africa. [4] Women in Africa, in general, get married at a much younger age than women elsewhere—leading to earlier pregnancies.