Barriers to uptake of cervical cancer screening services in low-and-middle-income countries: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) bear a disproportionate burden of cervical cancer mortality. We aimed to identify what is currently known about barriers to cervical cancer screening among women in LMICs and propose remedial actions.

Design

This was a systematic review using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms in Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases. We also contacted medical associations and universities for grey literature and checked reference lists of eligible articles for relevant literature published in English between 2010 and 2020. We summarized the findings using a descriptive narrative based on themes identified as levels of the social ecological model.

Setting

We included studies conducted in LMICs published in En

SUBMITTER: Petersen Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9716693 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature