Introduction:

uterine cervical cancer is one of the main problems of Public Health due to its high incidence and mortality rate in women. It is a controllable disease from the effectiveness of the prevention and screening programs along with the early diagnosis and treatment of the cases.

Objective:

to design an educational strategy concerning nursing care in the prevention and control of uterine cervical cancer in San Juan y Martinez municipality during January-December 2017.

Methods:

an applied, descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional study was conducted. The target group comprised 223 women who were included in the cervical-uterine program into the period study. The sample included the 223 patients who met the inclusion criteria established in the research.

Results:

ages from 25 and 34 years old and ninth (9th) level of education prevailed with their first sexual intercourses before 15 years old. Important risk factors and non-malignant cervix pathologies predominated; as well as the presence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV).

Conclusions:

there are difficulties in the nursing care process to develop it with efficiency and proficiency; that is why a strategy of educational intervention to increase the prevention and control of uterine cervical cancer for women in San y Martinez municipality was designed.

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