This qualitative research (which represents excerpts from a >300-page dissertation), introduces a hermeneutic phenomenological exploration of the extent to which the lived experience of adolescent mothers has influenced future educational and livelihood opportunities in Jamaica. See Full Report below

Adolescent motherhood continues to be of both public health and socio-economic concerns at the micro and macro levels. This paper took a qualitative approach in seeking to determine the extent to which the socio-economic outcome of adolescent mothers is influenced by cultural dictates including the position of powerlessness. See Full Report Below

On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, the virus is highly contagious and has survived in all climatic conditions. At the end of 2020, the WHO reported 83,753,763 confirmed cases and 1,802,760 deaths globally (www.covid19.who.int ) [1]. See Full Report Below.