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National Policies to Prevent and Manage Cervical Cancer in East African Countries: A Policy Mapping Analysis

Policy mapping is used to provide evidence on effective interventions and highlight the necessary refinements of health policies. The goal of this work is to carry out legal mapping to identify and assess health policies for the prevention and management of cervical cancer in East African countries....

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Autores principales: Njuguna, Diana Wangeshi, Mahrouseh, Nour, Onisoyonivosekume, Dede, Varga, Orsolya
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7352307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32531977
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers12061520
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author Njuguna, Diana Wangeshi
Mahrouseh, Nour
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Varga, Orsolya
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description Policy mapping is used to provide evidence on effective interventions and highlight the necessary refinements of health policies. The goal of this work is to carry out legal mapping to identify and assess health policies for the prevention and management of cervical cancer in East African countries. Cervical cancer, as a largely preventable disease, is the cause of most cancer deaths among women in East African countries. Legal documents were searched uniformly from government websites, national cancer institute sites, and international and national legal databases, then the data were analyzed using the Nvivo12 software package. The sample of 24 documents includes policies, plans, guidelines, acts, and strategies from 12 East African countries. The emerging themes were screening, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, challenges, and mitigation efforts. A few binding policies, a significant discrepancy to international standards in at least four countries, patchy screening registries, and a lack of prophylactic vaccination against human papillomavirus incorporation into national immunization schedules are the main findings. This paper underlies the role of law in health and the need for transparent legal and regulatory tools to achieve a further reduction in cervical cancer mortality in East African countries.
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spelling pubmed-73523072020-07-21 National Policies to Prevent and Manage Cervical Cancer in East African Countries: A Policy Mapping Analysis Njuguna, Diana Wangeshi Mahrouseh, Nour Onisoyonivosekume, Dede Varga, Orsolya Cancers (Basel) Article Policy mapping is used to provide evidence on effective interventions and highlight the necessary refinements of health policies. The goal of this work is to carry out legal mapping to identify and assess health policies for the prevention and management of cervical cancer in East African countries. Cervical cancer, as a largely preventable disease, is the cause of most cancer deaths among women in East African countries. Legal documents were searched uniformly from government websites, national cancer institute sites, and international and national legal databases, then the data were analyzed using the Nvivo12 software package. The sample of 24 documents includes policies, plans, guidelines, acts, and strategies from 12 East African countries. The emerging themes were screening, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, challenges, and mitigation efforts. A few binding policies, a significant discrepancy to international standards in at least four countries, patchy screening registries, and a lack of prophylactic vaccination against human papillomavirus incorporation into national immunization schedules are the main findings. This paper underlies the role of law in health and the need for transparent legal and regulatory tools to achieve a further reduction in cervical cancer mortality in East African countries. MDPI 2020-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7352307/ /pubmed/32531977 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers12061520 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short National Policies to Prevent and Manage Cervical Cancer in East African Countries: A Policy Mapping Analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7352307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32531977
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers12061520
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