Papanicolaou test in Brazil: analysis of the National Health Survey of 2013 and 2019.
Gulnar Azevedo E SilvaGiseli Nogueira DamacenaCaroline Madalena RibeiroLuciana Leite de Mattos AlcantaraPaulo Roberto Borges de Souza-JuniorCelia Szwarcwald LandmannPublished in: Revista de saude publica (2023)
Despite the high coverage of screening achieved in the country, there is great inequality in access to the test, and a non-negligible number of women are at greater risk of dying from a preventable disease. Efforts must be made to structure an organized screening program that identifies and captures the most vulnerable women.