The effects of the financial crisis on the general and dental health status of Greek citizens.

Purpose: To present the impact of the financial crisis on health status and dental health in Greece and compare it to the European Union and Finland and to identify any changes in health-related expenditure focusing on pharmaceutical expenditure and generic medicines.

Design/methodology/approach: Databases as Scopus, Pubmed, Google Scholar, World Health Organization, Eurostat, and Elstat were used.

Findings: Indicators, such as mortality and life expectancy, show that there is no clear correlation between health deterioration and financial crisis while dental health has deteriorated.

Greek hospital environments.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is three-fold: first, to assess nurse satisfaction levels with working environment (known as favourability) in five Greek public hospitals using the practice environment scale (PES); second, to compare perceptions among nurses employed in surgical and medical departments; and third, to examine relationships between perceptions and nurse educational level and experience.

Design/methodology/approach: In total, 532 nurses from five major public hospitals in Greece completed the PES. Descriptive statistics, -tests and Spearman correlations were employed to analyse the data.

Assessment of the nursing practice environment in Greek Hospitals: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The organisational characteristics of the nursing practice environment play a crucial role in nurses' job satisfaction, job retention, quality-of-care service provision and patient outcomes. The widely used Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index assesses the favourability of these traits, showing the grade of magnetism of these factors in the workplace.

Aims And Methods: This study aims to assess the nurse working environment at five public hospitals in Greece, and to compare these data with those of Magnet and non-Magnet hospitals.

Have panoramic indices the power to identify women with low BMD at the axial skeleton?

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether panoramic mandibular indices i.e. mandibular cortical width (MCW), alveolar bone resorption degree (M/M ratio) and panoramic mandibular index (PMI) can be used as pre-selection tests to identify women with low bone mineral density (BMD) at the axial skeleton.

Relationship between BMD, dental panoramic radiographic findings and biochemical markers of bone turnover in diagnosis of osteoporosis.

Objective: Mandibular indices, measured on panoramic radiographs, may be useful screening implements for low skeletal bone mass density (BMD). Recent studies suggest that radiographic examination of mandible may constitute an effective process for the early diagnosis of osteoporosis. Biochemical markers of bone turnover may be of value for prediction of individual bone loss and they may help in predicting risk of fracture in elderly women.

Mandibular radiomorphometric measurements as indicators of possible osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.

Objective: The use of mandibular anatomic indicators on panoramic radiographs, i.e. the number of lost teeth, mandibular cortical width at the mental region (MCW), panoramic mandibular index (PMI), alveolar crest resorption degree (M/M ratio) and morphologic classification of the mandibular inferior cortex (MIC grade) can be useful in the evaluation of bone resorption in different age groups of women to determine the presence of osteoporosis.