Participation in a Swedish cervical cancer screening program among women with psychiatric diagnoses: a population-based cohort study.

Background: In Sweden, organized screening programs have significantly reduced the incidence of cervical cancer. For cancers overall, however, women with psychiatric diagnoses have lower survival rates than other women. This study explores whether women with psychiatric diagnoses participate in cervical cancer screening programs to a lesser extent than women on average, and whether there are disparities between psychiatric diagnostic groups based on grades of severity.

Community collaboration to increase foreign-born women's participation in a cervical cancer screening program in Sweden: a quality improvement project.

Introduction: The prevailing inequities in healthcare have been well addressed in previous research, especially screening program participation, but less attention has been paid to how to overcome these inequities. This paper explores a key factor of a successful improvement project: collaboration with local doulas to raise cervical cancer screening participation by more than 40 percent in an area with a large number of foreign-born residents.

Methods: Data was collected through two focus group discussions with the doulas in order to design interventions and debrief after interventions had been carried out in the community.