Health Inequalities: Teenage pregnancy: trends, characteristics and outcomes in South Australia and Australia

Objectives:To describe trends in teenage pregnancy rates in South Australia and Australia in 1970–2000, and the socio‐demographic and clinical characteristics and outcomes of teenage women who gave birth in South Australia in 1995–99.

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