UPDATED 20.02.2014 12:58

Organised cervical cancer screening programme in the Etelä-Karjala health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2004.
Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened.

Targeted group Target
population
31.12.2003
Invited
n
Invited
% of population
Screened
n
Screened
% of population
Screened
% of invited
5-yearly screening1            
20 758 - - - --
25 658 145 22.0 63 9.6 43.4
302 619 609 98.4 351 56.7 57.6
352 720 726 100.8 485 67.4 66.8
402 829 833 100.5 608 73.3 73.0
452 890 887 99.7 675 75.8 76.1
502 1050 1037 98.8 822 78.3 79.3
552 1087 1093 100.6 860 79.1 78.7
602 792 794 100.3 630 79.5 79.3
65 837 - - - --
Other ages   -   -  -
30-602 5987 5979 99.9 4431 74.0 74.1
All ages   6124   4494   73.4
Risk group screening   74   62   83.8
Total 8240 6198 75.2 4556 55.3 73.5

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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