John Palacio-Cardona Author

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The treatment of acne as a strategy to improve contraceptive adherence in Colombian young women

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John Palacio-Cardona

Colombia is a country with great natural resources. In recent years, great economic and political eff orts have been made to achieve change and emerge from underdevelopment. In public health, strategies have been designed to reduce teenage pregnancies, given that this phenomenon generates low schooling and an uncertain future. Despite the achievement of results, there is still a long way to go. One of the problems detected in teenage pregnancies is the low adherence to modern contraceptive therapies. As a way to encourage greater adherence to contraception, one of the initiatives of the Program of Health Promotion in Santiago de Cali University, was to highlight the benefi cial eff ect of some hormonal contraceptive therapies on acne. Th e aim of this study was to determine the clinical... view more»

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