“The ones at the bottom of the food chain”: structural drivers of unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion amongst adolescent girls in Zambia
The embeddedness of adolescent pregnancies within community structures of economic insecurity and gendered and age-related power relations highlight the importance of introducing community level approaches to tackle unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortion. Understanding teenage pregnancy as a community issue creates opportunities for community level support to young girls especially when they return to school.
Authors
- Ramatou Ouédraogo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3682-4744)
- Tamaryn L. Crankshaw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6974-1593)
- Kenneth Juma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7742-9954)
- Carolien Aantjes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5727-8271)
- Joseph Mumba Zulu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1480-4977)
Institutions
- University of Zambia (ZM)
- African Population and Health Research Center (KE)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- University of KwaZulu-Natal (ZA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Archives of Public Health
- Published
- 2024-08-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-024-01377-3
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.70