background: screening of students ´ health problems could lead to timely prevention and control of many health disorders. this study aimed to determine the nationwide prevalence of common disorders through school health screening program in iran methods: this cross-sectional national screening program was conducted in 2007-2008 among first- and third-grade- stu­dents in primary schools, first- ...

The RCN forensic nursing forum has secured £4,000 to support travel bursaries. The bursaries are available to members of the forensic nursing forum, and need to be for relevant current forensic nursing clinical practice, for example mental health legislation, physical health, risk, violence in mental health care and improving practice.

Sexual aggression is a worldwide problem, affecting children of all ages, socioeconomic levels, and cultural backgrounds, with serious bio-psychosocial consequences. This study aims to contribute to an earlier detection and prevention of children sexual aggression (CSA), through the characterization of its recent and non-recent markers, from a forensic point-of-view. For this purpose, a retrosp...

introduction: one of the most important factors affecting the future survival of organizations is identifying and meeting the increasing needs and demands of patients in order to provide high quality health care services. the aim of this study was to identify factors affecting the selection of milad hospital, iran, by patients based on combined marketing factors. methods: the present analytical...

introduction: outsourcing in health care sector is a cost-effective strategy that can lead to increased quality of services provided to patients. the aim of this study was to determine the types of outsourced services in educational hospitals in isfahan and to investigate the viewpoints of managers about the impact of outsourcing. methods: this descriptive survey was carried out in 2010. resear...

The rapid growth of elastic computing services, together with a raising need to target savings, enable new IT scenarios. In particular, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) can benefit of digital forensic services sharing, lowering CAPEX and OPEX especially in case of spiky utilization of forensic hardware and software resources. In fact, considering the workloads related to the size of a forensic o...

introduction: supplementary health care services are provided to offer health care services beyond existing medical services at a reasonable cost to all members. these supplementary health care services contribute to the health and quality of life of the members and therefore membership provides peace of mind and a sense of security. this study aimed at investigating supplementary health care s...

introduction: in any organization particularly in health care centers, the clients' satisfaction provides the conditions to achieve the pre-determined objectives. one of the ways to get the clients' satisfaction is to follow the clients' takrim plan. to this end, in this article, the clients' takrim plan was studied in health centers affiliated with oil industry organization. methods and materi...

introduction: in order to fulfill the health and medical needs of rural people, iran's medical services insurance organization approved a plan to provide rural health insurance in 2005. the plan aimed to make an appropriate context for the activities of private health care service providers in the rural areas and to meet public expectations for access to specialized medical services. in this st...

there is an escalating demand for geriatric oral healthcare in all developed and developing countries including india. two-thirds of the world’s elderly live in developing countries. this is a huge population that must receive attention from policy-makers who will be challenged by the changing demands for social and health services including oral health services. resources are limited thus rath...