Emergency contraception: ¿how, when and with what?

• Main Author: Álvaro Monterrosa Castro
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga 2006-04-01
• Series: Medunab
• Subjects: Emergency contraception; Combined oral contraceptives; Progestin-only contraceptives; Hormonal contraception; Postcoital contraception.
• Online Access: http://caribdis.unab.edu.co/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/REVISTAMEDUNAB/NUMEROSANTERIORES/REVISTA%209%201/ANTICONCEPCION.PDF

Emergency contraception is a valid birth-control strategy that articulated and immers d in its real dimension makes a good influenceover the negative social-demographic, biological and economicreverberations that unwanted pregnancy and abortions in riskconditions generate. Due to all the implications that this has, it isimportant that professionals that attend sexual and reproductivehealth, have a clear level of theoretical knowledge based on scientific concepts, be convinced of its advantages and have a serious compromise with the society. Because the abortion is not legal in Colombia, even in rape cases, incest, life risk and woman health, and because the provoked abortion and its complications is the third cause of maternal death, all the actions, including emergency contraception, that prevent unwanted pregnancy and abortion have great importance. Every health professional must know when, with what tools and how administrate emergency contraception.