Increasing utilization of a rural cervical cancer detection program.
The Alabama Department of Public Health established, in 1973, a Cancer Screening Program (CSP). Although 66,000 women have been screened, many rural females had never used the program. After a community health organization education effort was introduced into a target rural county, an examination of CSP new user data for two intervention quarters revealed 345 and 150 per cent increases, respectively, in the pattern of use.
D000367:Age Factors; D000407:Alabama; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D044469:Racial Groups; D012423:Rural Health; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014626:Vaginal Smears