State the various factors affecting reproductive health of an adolescent?
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Reproductive health, as defined by the World Health Organization, is a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in all matters relating to the reproductive system at all stages of life and not merely the absence of reproductive disease or infirmity. Reproductive health deals with mensuration and menopause, pregnancy, conception, infertility, contraception and sexually transmitted diseases.
Factors affecting reproductive health of adolescents are:
Economic circumstances
Employment
Living conditions and family environment
Social and gender relationships
Traditional and legal structures within which they live
Teenage pregnancies
Lack of adequate access to information and health services