Updated results of the thalassaemia prevention programme carried out in Latium.

Updated results of the thalassaemia prevention programme carried out in Latium.

A screening programme for the prospective prevention of Mediterranean anaemia in Latium: results of seven years' work.

Since 1975 the Rome Microcythaemia Centre has carried out every year, under the auspices of the health authorities of the Latium region, a screening of thalassaemics among intermediate schoolchildren of Latium. From these campaigns, knowledge about thalassaemias among the young adult population has grown which, in its turn, has resulted in screening of these young adults. Through screening in s...

First premarital screening of thalassaemia carriers in intermediate schools in Latium.

In the 1975 to 1976 school year, under the auspices of the Health Authorities of the Latium Region, the Rome Microcythaemia Centre carried out for the first time a partial screening survey of thalassaemia carriers among the students of the compulsory intermediate school in Latium. This work was the beginning of a new preventive school health service aimed at the prophylaxis of Cooley's disease....

Survey on the prevalence of active infection caused by Helicobacter pylori in the patients carried out endoscopy in Tonekabon

H.pylori is one of the common infectious agent that involves in acute and chronic gastritis, peptic scar and gastric cancer. The infection episode in children ranges between 10 to 80 percent and the high frequency in developing countries. The goal of this study was to determine the incident of H.pylori in the patients carried out to endoscopy and the effective factors. In this study, 50 patient...

The organization and financing of cervical cancer prevention carried out by midwives in primary health care.

OBJECTIVE The main objective of the project was the evaluation of the organizational and financial aspects of midwives in primary health care (PHC), functioning under The Population Program for the Early Detection of Cervical Cancer two years after the implementation of new law regulations, which enable this occupational group to collect cytological material for screening. MATERIAL AND METHOD...