Importancia del conocimiento y promoción de la anticoncepción de emergencia / Significance of knowledge and promotion of emergence contraception

El embarazo no deseado cobra cada año un alto precio a la salud de la mujer, el cual es significativamente mayor en las adolescentes. Resulta paradójico que en pleno siglo XXI muchos profesionales de la salud desconozcan o no posean toda la información necesaria relativa a la anticoncepción de emergencia, más aún conociendo que este método utilizado de forma correcta y temprana puede reducir notablemente la incidencia de embarazos no deseados y por tanto del aborto y sus secuelas, por lo que la anticoncepción de emergencia puede ser de gran utilidad en la preservación y promoción de la salud sexual y reproductiva, e incluso en no pocos casos salvar la vida de las mujeres. Motivado por lo antes comentado, fue que se propuso realizar la presente revisión bibliográfica con el objetivo central de brindarle al personal de la salud, ya sean ginecólogos, médicos de familia, pediatras, enfermeras, las herramientas necesarias para educar y promover en la población general, y muy en especial a las y los adolescentes y jóvenes, respecto al uso adecuado de la anticoncepción de emergencia. Es un pequeño aporte a la lucha constante por la elevación de la calidad de vida de la mujer y la familia cubana

No desired pregnancy every year becomes a high price for women health, which is significantly higher in adolescents. It is paradoxical that in broad XX century many health professionals fails to recognize or not have all the necessary information relative to emergence contraception even though knowing that this method used in appropriate and early way may to reduce significantly the incidence of non-desired pregnancy and therefore the miscarriage and its sequelae, thus, the emergence contraception may be very useful in preservation and promotion of sexual and reproductive behavior, and even in not few cases, to save the women life. Motivated by the above mentioned, we conducted present bibliographic review with the central aim of to offer to health staff, be gynecologists, family physicians, pediatricians, nurses, the tools necessary to educate and to promote in general population and specially in adolescents the appropriate use of mergence contraception. It is our small contribution to constant fight by the rise in life of woman and in the Cuban life

Correlates of unintended pregnancy in Beheira governorate, Egypt

This study looked at the frequency and determinants of unplanned births among women in Beheira governorate, Egypt, and the effects on antenatal and postnatal care sought by the mother for herself and her child. Unintended births comprised 23.6%; 13.8% were unwanted and 9.8% were mistimed. Contraceptive failure accounted for 28.8% of unintended pregnancies; 47.1% of women who reported unintended pregnancy were not using [corrected] contraception. Age, education and parity were predictors of unwanted pregnancy. Contraceptive use and maternal employment status predicted mistimed pregnancy. Unintended pregnancy was a barrier to antenatal care, but not to child care. Our findings suggest that family planning programmes should help women of reproductive age achieve spacing and fertility limits