Every cockroach is beautiful to his mother's eyes"? A multicentric study on the perception of child's health status according to the parent.

Introduction: Childhood obesity is a social health problem in the Western World and an important goal is to analyze and correct risk factors. However, part of the problem could be determined by a different perception of the weight.

Material And Methods: In October 2019, we conducted a cross-sectional study in which a questionnaire was administered to the parents of primary and secondary school children in South-East Tuscany, Italy.

[Emergency department overuse amongst urban and rural areas: a retrospective descriptive analysis in Southern Tuscany.].

Background: The phenomenon of repeated accesses to the emergency department (ED) by users, the so-called frequent users, is frequent and documented. The totality of the EDs often have to deal with patients who come several times in short periods of time. In this study we try to analyze the characteristics of these users and the differences between the emergency department in rural, zonal or urban areas.

The seroprevalence of the hepatitis B virus in Italian medical students after 3 decades since the introduction of universal vaccination.

Objectives: Since 1991 hepatitis B vaccination has been mandatory for all newborns in Italy. The aim of the study was to verify the long-term seroprevalence and the efficacy of hepatitis B vaccination in medical students of the University of Siena.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted on a population of 850 medical students of the University of Siena (322 males and 528 females, mean age: 23 years) by obtaining from the medical reports the serological analysis data for the total anti-hepatitis B antibodies (HBsAb) and information on hepatitis B vaccination (number of vaccine doses, age at the first vaccination, time since the final vaccination dose, country of origin).