title: SESy-Europe: a multi-language database dedicated to cancer screening monitoring.
abstract: Cancer is the second cause of death in developed countries. Many efforts to educate the public to more tumor free life-style and screening practice have been therefore adopted. Considering the high costs of diagnostic procedures and educational programs a cancer prevention/screening practice monitoring system is required to reduce costs, to assist health making policy decisions, and to tailor more targeted interventions whenever indicated. We, therefore, realized a computerized data-base able to assist medical personnel in health intervention monitoring and making policy at community level with a focus on the European region. An international medical board provided the translation of medical-related contents in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Rumanian, Spanish and Turkish. The electronic system recognizes and finds relationships between screening events or secondary prevention tests and various causes of medical examinations (symptoms, diseases, professions, presence and type of health insurance, sex, age, medical history, family history, educational level, knowledge about cancer screening and prevention, patient location, type of community, region of provenance, etc). Due to its multi-language standardized characteristics its application may bridge European countries in cancer screening monitoring policy.
authors.affiliation: PACMeR section of Public Health, Hospital and Health Centers, Ioannina, Greece. dmauri@otenet.gr
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mauri
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pazarlis
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mauri
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Altinoz
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Rivas Flores
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Karentzou
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Proiskos
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lakiotis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maragkaki
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Terzoudi
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Dambrosio
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spiliopoulou
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Varsami
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Alexandropoulou
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tolis
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pavlidis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vittoraki
mesh_terms: D003201:Computers; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008403:Mass Screening; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011314:Preventive Health Services; D012984:Software