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The diversity of the national and global population, such as economic migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers and others, entrusts health professionals with health promotion and nursing care provision to individuals, groups and families coming from different cultures. Providing high... Read More

Introduction: The economical crisis is accompanied by phenomena such as the unemployment, the economical misery of the population, the weakening of the health care system, the increase of specific diseases’ prevalence and the overall unreleased of the health care system in a... Read More

Introduction: The global financial crisis and the recession that follows it, burden particularly on citizens and the health system in countries that will suffer through the vicious circle that created by rising unemployment, loss of health insurance, reduction of income failure... Read More

Introduction: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), up 50 million people worldwide, equivalent to the rate of at least 50 per 100,000 general population will develop epilepsy at any time of their life. This is a common neurological disorder which occurs in 0.5 to 0.8%... Read More

Introduction: This paper refers to two different approaches to the concepts of health and illness, the dominant biomedical model on the one hand and the perspective of public health and health sociology on the other. Purpose: The presentation of the biomedical model which... Read More

Introduction: Emergency pediatric problems which need immediate intervention from health professionals are not infrequent. Usually, the first person who deals with these potential fatal incidents and has to act instantly is the nurse. Aim: It was to investigate the knowledge of... Read More

Introduction: During the recent years, the incidence of tuberculosis has increased worldwide. Aim of this study is to investigate the incidence of tuberculosis and the personal and clinical characteristics of patients who were diagnosed with the disease during the years... Read More

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank mr Nikolaos Galanis, prof Panagiota Sourtzi, mr Konstantinos Galanis, ms. Maria Tsekoura, ms Fotini Skafida, mr Georgios Kampouroglou for their contribution to the pilot testing of the educational programme. Introduction: Deaf sign... Read More

ABSTRACT Aim: The aim of our study was to assess accidents in hospitalised children and define the main features of paediatric patients at risk for accidents. Methods: Data were collected using the medical reports of hospitalised children who experienced accidents provided by the... Read More