Rural versus urban healthcare through the lens of health behaviors and access to primary care: a post-hoc analysis of the Romanian health evaluation survey.

Background: Worldwide, rural populations are recognized to be exposed to increased health challenges due to their living and working environment, socioeconomic status, and access to health services. According to the Romanian Country Health Profile 2023, approximately 46% of all deaths recorded in Romania in 2019 could be attributed to behavioral risk factors such as tobacco smoking, dietary risks, alcohol consumption and low physical activity. No data on rural versus urban areas are available to date, and research is needed to document health inequalities, identify barriers to health services, and explore solutions.

Meeting statement: Call to action for step-change in health behaviours.

Background: Enabling, supporting and promoting positive health-related behaviours is critical in addressing the major public health challenges of our time, and the multifaceted nature of behaviours requires an evidence-based approach. This statement seeks to suggest how a much-needed enhanced use of behavioural and cultural science and insights for health could be advanced.

Study Design And Methods: and methods: Public health authorities of Europe and Central Asia and international partner organizations in September 2023 met in Copenhagen, Denmark, to discuss the way forward.

Closing the cancer care gap with a patient-reported nutrition screening: A retrospective analysis of a quality improvement project on an oncology ward (CCC study).

Background & Aims: Early identification of patients at risk for malnutrition followed by individualized nutrition interventions is a central step to the provision of appropriate nutrition care. However, a health care professional (HCP)-based nutrition screening is not always consistently integrated into routine care. Patient-reported (PR) nutrition screening could thus potentially alleviate the burden on the HCPs and contribute to a greater number of patients who are identified and treated for malnutrition.

Infantile Haemangioma in the Romanian Paediatric Population-Characteristics and Therapeutic Approaches.

Infantile haemangioma (IH) is the most common benign tumour in childhood, with an incidence of 4% to 12%. Aim: to describe the characteristics of infantile haemangioma in a sample of Romanian children <2 years old at diagnosis, types of treatment applied, recorded complications and the response to the therapeutic approach. A two-year prospective case series study (August 2019 to August 2021) was carried out.

Validation of a Quality of Life Assessment Questionnaire for Patients with Infantile Hemangioma and Their Families - the IH-QOL-RO.

Despite the fact that infantile haemangioma is one of the most common benign tumour of the child, the impact of this pathology on the quality of life of patients and their families has not aroused much interest in health services research. Several tools have been proposed to date to assess this, but there is no Romanian standardised instrument yet. Taking as a model the questionnaire developed and validated in English by Chamlin (2015), we translated, culturally adapted and piloted this instrument into Romanian.