Assessing university students' health needs: lessons learnt from Crete, Greece

Sir,During the past years a significant number of studies from different countries have reported the usefulness of school-based health centres and student health services.1–3 Documentation on this subject is still poor and there is certainly a need for both discussing the assessment instruments and testing the effectiveness of any interventions undertaken. There are also few studies available in Greece restricted to the identification of the risk factors of the students.4–6 The Clinic of Social and Family Medicine at the Medical School of the University of Crete undertook the initiative to commence a …