The impact of economic crisis on mortality due to mental health illnesses.

Background: The financial crisis affected several aspects of health. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of the crisis on mortality of mental illnesses in Greece and the socioeconomic determinants of mortality trends.

Methods: Mortality data of 2000-16 were analyzed and sex-and-age-standardized death rates (SDRs) were calculated.

Did Economic Crisis Affect Mortality Due to Infectious Diseases? Trends of Infectious Diseases Mortality in Greece Before and After Economic Crisis.

Introduction Economic crisis and the restrictive policies applied in Greece and other countries raise questions about whether financial crises may affect the declining trend of infectious diseases. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of the economic crisis on mortality due to infectious diseases in Greece and its possible correlation with socio-economic variables affected by the crisis.  Methods Data including all deaths due to infectious diseases in Greece during 2001-2016 were analyzed.

Economic Crisis Impact and Social Determinants of Perinatal Outcomes and Infant Mortality in Greece.

(1) Background: To explore the effects of the 2008 economic crisis on maternal, perinatal and infant mortality in Greece and the socio-economic determinants associated with them; (2) Methods: The annual rates of stillbirth (SBR), perinatal mortality (PMR), infant mortality (IMR), neonatal mortality (NNMR), post-neonatal mortality (PNMR), low birth weight (LBW), and maternal mortality (MMR) were calculated for the years 2000-2016. Average Annual Percent Changes (AAPC) were calculated by the period before and after 2008. The expected rates of 2009-2016 and the observed-to-expected rate ratios (RR) were calculated.

Vaccination practices and influenza in professional football players in Greece.

Background: There is limited data on vaccination practices for professional footballers globally.

Aims: To record vaccination practices employed by medical staff of individual football teams of the Super League Greece, and absenteeism of footballers related to influenza illness.

Methods: A brief questionnaire was distributed to chief medical officers (CMOs) of the sixteen teams of the Super League Greece.

Use of amenable mortality indicators to evaluate the impact of financial crisis on health system performance in Greece.

Background: Greece experienced the largest reduction in its health care budget of any European country during the economic crisis of 2008-15. Here, we test the hypothesis that budget reductions worsened health system performance in Greece, using the concept of Amenable Mortality to capture deaths which should not occur in the presence of effective and timely health care.

Methods: Amenable mortality was calculated from national mortality statistics, using age-standardized deaths from 34 conditions amenable to medical intervention in Greece during 2000-16, with further analysis by sex, age, region and cause.