Adolescent pregnancy in the printed media

Abstract

The communication is one of the main tools to intervene in health, because it uses strategies to inform and influence individuals' decisions to promote their health. In the case of teenage pregnancy, much of the perception that one has on the topic stems from the approach given by the print media. Thus, the purpose of this study is to verify this issue in the local media, in the media of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, and the national media, represented, respectively, by the newspaper O Nacional (Passo Fundo, RS), Zero Hora (Porto Alegre, RS) and Folha de S.Paulo. In this text we analyze the main approaches to the this in O Nacional, following an analysis protocol developed for this purpose.