[Socioeconomic health differences].
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Since 1975 the general practitioners of 'Ons Medies Centrum' in Oss have been inviting women systematically for cervical screening and cervical smears. The attendance and protection rate were evaluated for the period 1975-1989. 85% of the women 35-54 years of age had had a cervical smear within 5 years after they entered the general practice or had not been invited because of a total hysterectomy. After a starting period of a few years the protection rate stabilised at 75%. There was no relation between residential quarter, health insurance, ethnic origin and attendance for the screening. Age was the only factor related to attendance: the attendance rate among older women was lower.