Austerity and its consequences on cancer screening in Greece

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9960, 2014, Pages 2110-

  Tsounis, Andreas ^a   Sarafis, Pavlos ^b   Alexopoulos, Evangelos C ^c  

^a Municipality of Thessaloniki OKANA   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

^c HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SCREENING; GREECE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LETTER; MAMMOGRAPHY; SOCIAL SECURITY; ADULT; AGED; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS;

ADULT; AGED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTHCARE FINANCING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84916897688     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62373-4     Document Type: Letter

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