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. 2024 Feb 4;30:100689. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2024.100689

Table 1.

Country's contextual characteristics.

Country Socioeconomic characteristics
Health system characteristics
Cervical cancer
Population 2019(a) Rural pop 2019 (%)(a) Income level(b) Inequality-adjusted HDI 2019(c) Predominant health system Type(d) UHC index services capacity & access 2017(e) Health expenditure per capita (US $) 2018(e) Incidence 2020 (ASR per 100,000)(f) Mortality 2020 (ASR per 100,000)(f) Average annual percentage change (AAPC) mortality (ASR)—15 years(g)
Last year AAPC (95% CI)
North America
 Bermuda 63,000 0.0 High N/A SS N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
 Canada 37,411,000 18.5 High Very high NHI 100 4995 5.5 1.9 2015 −1.4 (−3.8, 1.1)
 United States of America 329,065,000 17.5 High Very high OP 100 10,624 6.2 2.1 2016 −0.7b (−0.9, −0.5)
Central America
 Belize 390,000 54.1 Upper-middle Medium NHI 56 286 19.1 14.8 2016 −0.7 (−3.7, 2.5)
 Costa Rica 5,048,000 19.7 Upper-middle Medium NHI 77 910 11.7 5.4 2014 −3.4b (−5.2, −1.6)
 El Salvador 6,454,000 27.2 Lower-middle Low SS 79 289 13.1 7.4 2014 −2.9b (−4.1, −1.7)
 Guatemala 17,581,000 48.6 Upper-middle Low SS 32 260 20.3 11.9 2016 2.0 (−0.2, 4.2)
 Honduras 9,746,000 41.5 Lower-middle Low SS 45 176 19.5 12.5 N/A N/A
 Mexico 127,576,000 20.3 Upper-middle Medium SS 80 520 12.6 5.7 2016 −3.9b (−4.4, −3.3)
 Nicaragua 6,546,000 40.0 Lower-middle Low SS 73 174 21.3 12.6 2017 −1.7b (−2.7, −0.7)
 Panama 4,246,000 31.8 High Medium SS 89 1132 14.0 7.5 2016 −1.9b (−3.4, −0.4)
South America
 Argentina 44,781,000 8.1 Upper-middle High SS 89 1128 16.7 8.7 2016 −0.2 (−1.1, 0.6)
 Bolivia 11,513,000 29.9 Lower-middle Low SS 82 224 36.6 18.0 N/A N/A
 Brazil 211,050,000 13.3 Upper-middle Medium NHS 99 848 12.7 6.3 2016 −0.7b (−0.9, −0.6)
 Chile 18,952,000 12.0 High High SS 94 1456 11.1 5.2 2016 −3.1b (−4.6, −1.6)
 Colombia 50,339,000 18.7 Upper-middle Medium NHI 85 513 14.9 7.4 2015 −3.0b (−4.2, −1.8)
 Ecuador 17,374,000 35.4 Upper-middle Medium SS 86 516 16.0 8.2 2016 1.1b (0.2, 2.0)
 Guyana 783,000 73.7 Upper-middle Medium NHI 70 296 29.5 15.1 N/A N/A
 Paraguay 7,045,000 37.8 Upper-middle Medium SS 63 400 34.1 19.0 2016 2.2b (0.5, 4.0)
 Peru 32,510,000 22.2 Upper-middle Medium SS 81 369 22.2 11.5 2015 0.6 (−1.0, 2.3)
 Suriname 581,000 33.4 Upper-middle Low NHI 78 474 23.7 14.1 2014 −1.1 (−3.8, 1.7)
 Uruguay 3,462,000 4.6 High High NHI 94 1590 11.7 5.6 2016 −2.4b (−4.0, −0.9)
 Venezuela 28,516,000 13.5 Upper-middle Medium SS 75 257 22.2 12.5 2013 −1.2b (−1.9, −0.5)
Caribbean
 Antigua & Barbuda 97,000 81.4 High N/A NHI 70 875 NA NA N/A N/A
 Bahamas 389,000 17.5 High N/A NHI 81 2013 14.9 10.6 N/A N/A
 Barbados 287,000 69.0 High Medium NHS 78 1165 15.2 9.0 2013a −2.5b (−0.8, −3.3)
 Cuba 11,333,000 23.2 Upper-middle N/A NHS 100 987 13.9 6.9 2016 −1.5b (−2.1, −1.0)
 Dominica 72,000 30.6 Upper-middle N/A NHS NA 491 NA NA N/A N/A
 Dominican Republic 10,739,000 18.6 Upper-middle Medium SS 75 462 17.9 11.7 2013 0.4 (−2.1, 2.9)
 Grenada 112,000 61.6 Upper-middle N/A NHS 64 475 NA NA N/A N/A
 Haiti 11,263,000 43.7 Low Low NHS 30 64 11.6 9.0 N/A N/A
 Jamaica 2,948,000 43.4 Upper-middle Medium NHI 74 321 21.6 13.6 N/A N/A
 Puerto Rico 2,933,000 8.0 High N/A SS N/A N/A 8.0 2.8 N/A N/A
 Saint Kitts & Nevis 53,000 73.6 High N/A NHS N/A 993 N/A N/A N/A N/A
 Saint Lucia 183,000 80.3 Upper-middle Medium NHS 59 465 16.6 11.0 N/A N/A
 Saint Vincent & the Grenadines 111,000 46.8 Upper-middle N/A NHS 59 329 NA NA N/A N/A
 Trinidad & Tobago 1,395,000 46.2 High N/A NHS 78 1123 19.8 11.9 2012 −1.8 (−3.7, 0.1)

IHDI: Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index, UHC: Universal Health Coverage, ASR: Age Standardized Rate, CI: Confidence Interval, NHS: health systems with unique payer, SS: health systems based on social security for workers and public health provision for the remaining population, NHI: national health insurance (individual) based on public funding but public and private providers, OP: predominantly out of pocket health services provision including private insurance. N/A: Non-Available.

a

Includes only the last 14 years.

b

Statistically significant.

Sources: (a) United Nations Populational10 Prospects 2019, (b) World Bank,12(c) United Nations, IHDI classification11: Very high (≥80), High (0.70–0.79), Medium (0.55–0.69), Low: <0.55, (d) Health system type,18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37(e) WHO 2019,13(f) IARC 2020,5(g) WHO cancer mortality database.38