General practitioners can increase participation in cervical cancer screening - a model program in Hungary.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cervical cancer is a preventable disease. Unfortunately, its mortality is high in Hungary: 9.2 deaths /100000 women/year in 2015. The Hungarian organized, nationwide cervical screening program was launched in 2003, but it could improve the coverage rate of cervical cancer screening only by a few percentage points. The vast majority of women still uses opportunistic screening and the organized screening program had little impact on participation by women who never or rarely consult their gynecologists. We assessed whether involving general practitioners in the cervical cancer screening process would increase participation.

Methods

The study consisted of two parts: 1. A questionnaire-based health survey was conducted using a representative sample of women aged 25 to

SUBMITTER: Gyulai A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5960501 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature