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Organised cervical cancer screening programme in the Etelä-Karjala health care district in Finland in the invitation year 1998.
Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened.

Targeted group Target
population
31.12.1997
Invited
n
Invited
% of population
Screened
n
Screened
% of population
Screened
% of invited
5-yearly screening1            
20 745 - - - --
25 617 146 23.7 65 10.5 44.5
302 756 304 40.2 192 25.4 63.2
352 853 478 56.0 358 42.0 74.9
402 861 854 99.2 650 75.5 76.1
452 1023 1024 100.1 809 79.1 79.0
502 1126 1120 99.5 900 79.9 80.4
552 789 785 99.5 644 81.6 82.0
602 823 520 63.2 421 51.2 81.0
65 741 - - - --
Other ages   12   1   8.3
30-602 6231 5085 81.6 3974 63.8 78.2
All ages   5243   4040   77.1
Risk group screening   267   190   71.2
Total 8334 5510 66.1 4230 50.8 76.8

1 Age groups are defined on the basis of the invitation year and the birth year.
2 Age groups targeted in the Decree on Public Health (1992).

Tabulation is based on registration from 10 municipalities:
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