Trends in adolescent first births in five countries in Latin America and the Caribbean: disaggregated data from demographic and health surveys

• Main Authors: Sarah Neal (Author), Chloe Harvey (Author), Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli (Author), Sonja Caffe (Author), Alma Virginia Camacho (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Adolescents in the Latin American and Caribbean region continue to experience poor reproductive health outcomes, including high rates of first birth before the age of 20 years. Aggregate national level data fails to identify groups where progress is particularly poor. This paper...