Primary care behind the former "Iron Curtain": changes and development of primary healthcare provision in the Eastern part of the European Union.

Background: The Alma-Ata Declaration was a big step in the development of primary care, defining the main tasks and populations' expectation. Celebrating the 40th year's anniversary is a good opportunity to make an analysis. Development of primary care was not parallel in the Eastern and Western part of Europe.

Expenditures Of Metabolic Diseases - An Estimation on National Health Care Expenditures of Diabetes and Obesity, Hungary 2013.

Background: Obesity could be considered as the main consequence of unhealthy nutrition, responsible for many pathological alterations in human. Obese patients usually need more health care services. The aim of the study was to estimate the financial expenditures of health care provisions in Hungary, related to obesity and diabetes, as its main pathological consequence.