Challenges in Utilization of Osteoporosis Healthcare Services during COVID-19 Pandemic in Romania - a Nationwide Population Study.

This study compares the utilization of osteoporosis and osteoporosis complication healthcare services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania. The descriptive nationwide population study has used secondary data collected from the national health information system. We have calculated and compared the procedures performed for osteoporosis diagnosis and screening, standardized incidence and hospitalization rate for osteoporosis and osteoporosis fractures before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Role of Risk Assessment in Prevention of Work-Related Accidents and Diseases in Hospital Staff.

Risk assessment is an essential component of the occupational health and safety event prevention activity.The purpose of this study is to choose the most appropriate risk assessment method for hospitals. The main methods were compared.

The salivary levels of leptin and interleukin-6 as potential inflammatory markers in children obesity.

Background: Obesity among children is an alarming issue due to an increased incidence over the last years with devastating physiological and psychological consequences. Current available medical diagnostic tools use invasive methods to evaluate and monitor the lipid profile, glycaemia or liver status for determining the overweight/ obesity complications. The standard methods proposed for the assay of IL6 and leptin from saliva cannot detect these two biomarkers in children saliva; the levels of IL6 and leptin in children's saliva are lower than the limit of determination of the standard methods.

Attitude, knowledge and informed choice towards prenatal screening for Down Syndrome: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Down Syndrome screening test is a bridge between knowledge and uncertainty, safety and risk, unpredictability and desire to know in order to gain control. It may be accepted either not to have a baby with Down syndrome, or to prepare to have a baby with this condition. Every woman should understand that it is an option and should be encouraged to make their own decisions based on information and personal values.

Cancer mortality in Romania, 1955-2004. Digestive sites: esophagus, stomach, colon and rectum, pancreas, liver, gallbladder and biliary tree.

Aim: Until recently, gastric cancer was the most frequent digestive neoplasia in our country. Our study presents the first synthesis of data regarding mortality rates from digestive cancers, for a period covering 50 years, in Romania.

Methods: Age-standardized mortality rates /100,000 population, general and/or per gender, concerning six digestive cancers, were identified from the statistics of IARC/OMS (Lyon, France) (years 1955-2002) and of the Ministry of Public Health (Bucharest, Romania) (year 2004).

[Analysis of the national tuberculosis program. Evolution of tuberculosis in Bihor district, Romania].

The prevention and control of tuberculosis are made by a special network, covering all the sanitary units and the entire medical staff. Ten years ago, the DOTS strategy (Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course) was enacted and the National Program for tuberculosis control (PNCT) was implemented on "medium terms" (1997-2000 and after that 2001-2005), with results in 2003 when, for the first time after two decades, has been observed a decrease of the incidence of tuberculosis, maintained also during the next years. The national program of health - the Supervising and control of tuberculosis, in Bihor district rolled in good terms, without any problems in achieving the proposed aims, due to the good coordination between institutions and professionals directly involved in the surveillance and control of disease.