Descripción del proyecto
Abordar las desigualdades en el cribado del cáncer de cuello uterino en Europa
El cáncer de cuello uterino es el cuarto cáncer más frecuente que afecta a las mujeres en todo el mundo. Aunque el cribado del cáncer de cuello uterino (CCS, por sus siglas en inglés) es fundamental para el diagnóstico oportuno y para reducir la mortalidad, sigue siendo un privilegio inaccesible para las subpoblaciones desfavorecidas de mujeres vulnerables. El proyecto CBIG-SCREEN, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende resolver este problema. El proyecto se centrará en la creación de un marco de conocimientos a escala europea en torno a los obstáculos que dificultan el CCS, así como de la infraestructura política, programática y de comunicación esencial para satisfacer las necesidades de las subpoblaciones de mujeres desatendidas con alto riesgo inherente de padecer cáncer de cuello uterino y escaso acceso a una atención sanitaria adecuada.
Objetivo
CBIG-SCREEN aims to tackle inequality in cervical cancer screening (CCS) continuum. Though CCS programmes drastically reduce cervical cancer mortality, they remain largely inaccessible and underused by subpopulations of vulnerable women, creating inequality in the European healthcare system. CCS programmes rarely reach the subgroups at highest risk, adding to the challenges underserved populations already face in their efforts to maintain their socioeconomic and physical health. CBIG-SCREEN will create a Europe-wide knowledge framework around barriers to CCS and generate policies, programmes, communications and other required services to meet the needs of underserved sub-populations of women with inherent high-risk of cervical cancer and low (perceived) access to proper healthcare routes. CBIG-SCREEN will be working collaboratively with vulnerable and underserved women to identify the interventions that will more effectively engage and retain them in CCS programmes in European countries. Through stakeholder engagement, mathematical analyses, and structured reviews of current policies, our consortium will collect, analyse, and share knowledge about shortcomings and opportunities for improving CCS continuum that will directly translate to policy recommendations and be used to adapt and extend national CCS with interventions tailored to vulnerable subpopulations. By deploying screening programmes aimed specifically to serve vulnerable women we can thus leverage limited resources to quickly reduce CCS mortality. Our interventions aim to reduce health inequality by increasing screening ratios among vulnerable women from 26% to 45% and intend to offer support to policymakers and national programmes to help Europe reach or exceed the WHO 2030 target of screening >70% of women for cervical cancer. CBIG-SCREEN project will realise the needed improvements in the European screening policies to address the current inequities and thus accelerate cervical cancer elimination.
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Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-SC1-2020-Single-Stage-RTD
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
75654 Paris
Francia