title: The organization and financing of cervical cancer prevention carried out by midwives in primary health care.
abstract: The main objective of the project was the evaluation of the organizational and financial aspects of midwives in primary health care (PHC), functioning under The Population Program for the Early Detection of Cervical Cancer two years after the implementation of new law regulations, which enable this occupational group to collect cytological material for screening.
  
  
  
  Under this project, the data of the Program's Coordinating Centre, affecting midwives' postgraduate education in the field of pap smear tests, was taken into analysis. Furthermore, The National Health Fund (NFZ) reports on contracts entered in the field of the discussed topics, taking into consideration the value of health services performed within the Program in respect of ambulatory care and primary care units.
  
  
  
  NFZ concluded contracts for the provision of PHC service with 6124 service providers in 2016, including the contracts in the field of providing health services under the cervical cancer prevention program by PHC midwifes, which were entered into by 358 institutions (5.85%). The value of the basic services under the Program, carried out under NFZ contracts in 2014, amounted to approx. PLN 12.3 million, while the value of services performed by PHC midwives represented only 0.38% of this sum.
  
  
  
  The introduction of legislative changes, allowing PHC midwives to collect cytological material for screening, did not cause, in the period of the observation on a national scale, the expected growth of availability of basic stage services within the cervical cancer prevention program.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Economics and Management, School of Public Health in Bytom, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice. kesobczyk@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Karolina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sobczyk
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Woźniak-Holecka
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Holecki
authors.forename: Dorota
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Szałabska
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000191:economics*; D008880:Midwifery / Q000379:methods*; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D065006:Papanicolaou Test / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011044:Poland; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014626:Vaginal Smears / Q000191:economics; D016387:Women's Health / Q000191:economics
keywords: cervical cancer; health care economics and organization; prevention; primary health care midwives