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Organised cervical cancer screening programme in the Länsi-Pohja health care district in Finland in the invitation year 2000.
Numbers of women in the target population, and invited and screened.

Targeted group Target
population
31.12.1999
Invited
n
Invited
% of population
Screened
n
Screened
% of population
Screened
% of invited
5-yearly screening1            
20 476 - - - --
25 374 - - - --
302 324 136 42.0 77 23.8 56.6
352 395 394 99.7 245 62.0 62.2
402 479 480 100.2 345 72.0 71.9
452 550 547 99.5 388 70.5 70.9
502 538 535 99.4 397 73.8 74.2
552 461 282 61.2 223 48.4 79.1
602 331 111 33.5 91 27.5 82.0
65 339 34 10.0 29 8.6 85.3
Other ages   -   -  -
30-602 3078 2485 80.7 1766 57.4 71.1
All ages   2519   1795   71.3
Risk group screening   83   59   71.1
Total 4267 2602 61.0 1854 43.4 71.3

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 6 municipalities:
KEMI KEMINMAA SIMO TERVOLA TORNIO YLITORNIO