The Association Between Overcrowded Households and Adolescent Pregnancy

Díaz-Sánchez, Juan Pablo; Lanchimba, Cintya; Obaco, Moisés

doi:10.1007/s13178-020-00480-8

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“…Recent studies have shown that overcrowding (three to five persons per bedroom) in low-income areas in Ecuador reduces the probability of teenage pregnancy in young women from 14 to 17 years old compared with no overcrowding areas. These findings greatly impact offspring programming because they induce stress that should be considered a covariate or "exposure" in human and animal DOHaD studies [144,145].…”

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Developmental Programming in Animal Models: Critical Evidence of Current Environmental Negative Changes

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The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) approach answers questions surrounding the early events suffered by the mother during reproductive stages that can either partially or permanently influence the developmental programming of children, predisposing them to be either healthy or exhibit negative health outcomes in adulthood. Globally, vulnerable populations tend to present high obesity rates, including among school-age children and women of reproductive age. In addition, adults suffer from high rates of diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular, and other metabolic diseases. The increase in metabolic outcomes has been associated with the combination of maternal womb conditions and adult lifestylerelated factors such as malnutrition and obesity, smoking habits, and alcoholism. However, to date, "new environmental changes" have recently been considered negative factors of development, such as maternal sedentary lifestyle, lack of maternal attachment during lactation, overcrowding, smog, overurbanization, industrialization, noise pollution, and psychosocial stress experienced during the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Therefore, it is important to recognize how all these factors impact offspring development during pregnancy and lactation, a period in which the subject cannot protect itself from these mechanisms. This review aims to introduce the importance of studying DOHaD, discuss classical programming studies, and address the importance of studying new emerging programming mechanisms, known as actual lifestyle factors, during pregnancy and lactation.

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Measuring Overcrowding in Households with Children: Official vs. Actual Thresholds in the Ecuadorian Case

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This paper reports an investigation that explores the official (more than three people per bedroom ppb-) vs. actual characterization of household overcrowding using a developing country as a case of study. In that line, the aim of this paper is two-fold. First, by using Ecuadorian official housing overcrowding threshold, we explore the association between housing overcrowding and a well-being variable. Secondly, we identify and compare weather that official threshold corresponds to the actual one at which that wellbeing variable seems to be affected. Proposing a probit regression, in which our well-being variable, defined as early children s respiratory health, depends on household overcrowding.We find that overcrowding is positively associated with the persistence of respiratory diseases in children at a level of =1%. Always using the official characterization of overcrowding (3 ppb), marginal effect indicates that for two hypothetical households with at least one 0-to-5-year-old child with average values on the other estimates, the predicted probability of having a child with a respiratory disease is .0022 greater for an overcrowded household compared to one that is not. Regarding our second objective, we find that the threshold at which household density starts to manifest respiratory incidences in children is 1,33 ppb, which is significantly different from the official characterization of more than 3 ppb. In conclusion, Ecuadorian government, as well as those that have established their household overcrowding characterization arbitrarily, may be interested in re-evaluate its official representation considering a threshold at which household density starts to deteriorate household members health outputs. Indeed, a refined overcrowding definition, which may include further considerations than density (i.e. a limit age for children for sharing bedroom and gender separation) may be debated and incorporated taking into account the restrictions, in this case, of a developing country. Moreover, an official characterization that is according to its social reality may allow to establish accurate policies, goals and strategies to ameliorate housing overcrowding.

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Prevalence and associated factors of school re-entry among teenage mothers in Ghana’s Volta Region: a cross-sectional survey

Morgan,

Ibrahim,

Owusu

et al. 2023

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

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The Association Between Overcrowded Households and Adolescent Pregnancy

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Developmental Programming in Animal Models: Critical Evidence of Current Environmental Negative Changes

Developmental Programming in Animal Models: Critical Evidence of Current Environmental Negative Changes

Measuring Overcrowding in Households with Children: Official vs. Actual Thresholds in the Ecuadorian Case

Prevalence and associated factors of school re-entry among teenage mothers in Ghana’s Volta Region: a cross-sectional survey

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