Comprehensiveness and gender as a theoretical basis for health care of pregnant adolescents

Abstract

Meeting the demands of women's health, from the perspective of wholeness and gender, requires overcoming the reductionist view that guides the practice of care, incorporating human multidimensionality. This article aims to reflect about fundamentals that govern comprehensiveness and gender as a theoretical basis for nursing care, with emphasis on teenage pregnancy as a social phenomenon that expresses this interaction. It is an update article, whose construction took place from select, reading and reflection of bibliographic material that underlies this comprehensiveness, and its intersection with gender in the health care of women. The theoretical bases mentioned are analyzed from their principles articulating them to the context in which the demands of pregnant teens are generated. Comprehensiveness is expressed when care is effective, respecting singularities of pregnant adolescents and providing changes in professional posture with response of individualized care to the needs of adolescents. Individualizing the nurse's practice, who responds widely for primary care, the text invites us to reflect the possibilities to intervene in reality and to promote changes in the formulation of strategies and actions that enable meeting the demands of teenagers.