Cancer screening in Greece. Guideline awareness and prescription behavior among Hellenic physicians.

Background: Primary cancer prevention is offered by the Greek health care system to the population on an opportunistic basis. This means that screening depends on advice from primary care providers and on individuals' request for screening, since a centralized invitational register is lacking. In planning preventive services, an accurate identification of baseline levels of performance for preventive activities is fundamental, so that realistic goals can be set.

Socio-demographic status and alcohol drinking patterns among Greek healthy adults.

Aim: To analyze socio-demographic correlates of alcohol drinking among Greek healthy adults.

Methods: Data related to alcohol consumption patterns of 5500 adult individuals, coming from 26 Hellenic provinces were abstracted from SESy-Europe database within a framework of the nationwide Hellenic anticancer-trial PACMeR 02 study. Statistic: chi2 test and logistic regression analyses were used.

Old habits die hard: chest radiography for screening purposes in primary care.

Objective: To assess whether the use of chest radiography for screening changes over time.

Design: Systematic review.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, ISI, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and handsearching of selected journals.

Screening chest radiography: results from a Greek cross-sectional survey.

Background: Public health authorities worldwide discourage the use of chest radiography as a screening modality, as the diagnostic performance of chest radiography does not justify its application for screening and may even be harmful, since people with false positive results may experience anxiety and concern. Despite the accumulated evidence, various reports suggest that primary care physicians throughout the world still prescribe chest radiography for screening. We therefore set out to index the use of chest radiography for screening purposes among the healthy adult population and to analyze its relationship with possible trigger factors.