A qualitative evaluation of strategies to increase colorectal cancer screening uptake.

Objective: To obtain data that could be used to optimize the content and design of the targeted, mailed invitations that Ontario's provincewide colorectal cancer (CRC) screening program plans to use to increase screening uptake; to identify other strategies to increase CRC screening uptake; and to describe the effects of this qualitative work on a subsequent quantitative pilot study.

Design: Qualitative study using semistructured focus groups.

Setting: Four different Ontario communities.

Defining a strategy to evaluate cervical cancer prevention and early detection in the era of HPV vaccination.

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to outline the short-, medium- and long-term requirements of a strategy to evaluate the impact of HPV immunization and to define a framework to facilitate planning and evaluation.

Method: This strategy was developed in Ontario from January to August 2008. Literature review was completed to assess existing material relevant to vaccine evaluation, and HPV vaccine specifically.