Basic needs, planning and policies

Iran’s Shift in Family Planning Policies: Concerns and Challenges

Iran’s significant success in implementing Family Planning (FP) during the past 25 years, has made it a role model in the world. The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Iran has dropped from 6.5 in 1960 to 1.6 in 2012, which is well below the targeted value of 2.2 for the country. Iran’s success story, however, did not merely root in the implementation of FP programs. In other words, families’ strong...

Basic Research Needs for Superconductivity

Basic Health Insurance Stewardship in Line with the Upstream Laws and Policies: Conflicts and Contradictions!!!

One of the serious challenges regarding interactions between Iran’s social security system and health system is basic health insurance stewardship. It has existed for a long time and has been given a special place concerning the related laws and policies in recent years. In this regard, it seems that approving of rules conflicting with upstream laws and policies has increased existing conflicts...

Role of Basic Psychological Needs in Moral Identity

Background: Moral commitments of therapists is the important subject that attracted the attention of researches in the field of medical ethics. The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between basic psychological needs and moral identity among medical students. Method: The plan of this research is descriptive-correlation. Subjects were 140 medical interns of Shiraz Universi...

Adaptive Planning - Needs and strategies for indicator based adaptive planning

Resilience has become a central buzzword for all activities performed by cities to handle potential disruptions and changes of social, economic as well as ecological nature. Especially the increasing consequences of climate change are challenging city governments in ensuring resilience nowadays. Understanding adaptability as a key component of resilience, a lot of cities are implementing substa...