Consumo y contaminación ambiental por desechos generados por el nacimiento en madres adolescentes. Estudio de caso alumnos grado noveno Institución Educativa Manuel María

Abstract

Teenage pregnancy has always been relating with public health problems, given the biological and psychic repercussions for both; the young mother and her baby. However, it is also known that it produces other impacts in the social and cultural environments in the short and long period, the causes of increasing in maternity in adolescent can be multiple. Nevertheless, this study will focus on determining the relationship that exists between the births of teenage mothers and the environment consequences like a consumption and pollution. The method for this research was the case study with a measurement; where a pre-experiment was made, to students of ninth grade of the Institution Educative Manuel María Mallarino of Santiago de Cali. They were in a training; making transversality between sexual education with the problem of teenage mothers and environmental education with overpopulation and its impacts on the environment, supported by the Malthusian theory, where it is sayd that the limited supply of natural resources opposes a potentially infinite demographic pressure. Subsequently, with a survey is evaluate its level of understanding of the topic. This research would be of the quantitative type, where the data was processed and then translated into Excel tables. As a result after training 81 students between the ages of 14 to 19, it is possible to demonstrate through a closed survey that 93% the got to understand the relationship, cause and effect that is generated between the unplanned births of teenage mothers, the degradation of resources and the impact on the environment. Perceiving that a new baby would not only affect his future aspirations, but also bring consequences for the sustainability of the planet; therefore to greater population, greater consumption of natural resources and increase in polluting agents.