Skin cancer risk factors among primary school children: investigations in Western Hungary.

Objective: To evaluate the factors associated with sunburns and with sun protection practice in Hungarian primary school children.

Method: We investigated children's (the median age: 8, range 5 to 12 years) and parents' assessment of sun sensitivity and sun protection characteristics in cities Gyor and Zalaegerszeg (Hungary) in 2004. This cross-sectional study was part of a programme intended to increase children's and parents' awareness of harmful effects of excessive sunbathing.

[Establishment and preliminary evaluation of the General Practitioners' Morbidity Sentinel Stations Program in Hungary. Prevalence of hypertension, diabetes mellitus and liver cirrhosis].

Study Objective: To develop, introduce and test a methodology, which provides valid data about the prevalence and incidence of chronic, non-communicable diseases of great public health importance.

Design: The School of Public Health, University of Debrecen, Hungary and the National Public Health and Medical Officer Service the first time launched a morbidity sentinel stations network of general practitioners in four counties in Hungary in May 1998. Within the framework of this program the participating general practitioners reported the prevalence data of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, liver cirrhosis, and major malignant diseases at the beginning, and from than on continuously report the incidence of these diseases.