background: for planning in health,preventing and representing valuable dentistry services, we need to identify and evaluate the information on the status of individuals' dental hygiene and health. in this examination, evaluating dental health which is one of hygienic main and key problems has been conducted according to world's standards in correction center of tehran province in 200...

This report presents a detailed description of the sample design for the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-94, including a brief description of research that led to the choice of the final design. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is one of the major surveys of the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control. Informat...

Aim: The study aimed to examine the relationship between individuals' distrust of health care system and their literacy levels how demographic characteristics affect level distrust.
 Materials Methods: research was conducted with 450 people over 18 living in Selcuklu, Meram, Karatay districts central Konya province. A 32-question survey consisting questions, Health Literacy Scale (HLS), Ca...

Background. Commonly self-reported questions in population health surveys, such as "do you have a family physician?", represent one of the best-known sources of information about patients' attachment to family physicians. Is it possible to find a proxy for this information in administrative data? Objective. To identify the type of patient attachment to a family physician using administrative da...

Introduction: Breast neoplasia is the most common cancer among women in both developed and developing countries. Over 1.15 million women in the world detecting with breast neoplasia each year and the mortality rate is 502,000 cases from this cancer. The purpose of this study was to describe how Iranian women perform breast self-examination. Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study...

objectives: monitoring development in infancy results in early detection of developmental delay, and early intervention can prevent sever complications of developmental disorders. the purpose of this study was to determine quality of developmental screening of 3-12 months infants referred to tehran health centers, through comparing with screening by bayley infant neurodevelopmental screener ii ...

Truly global radiology would exist if patients could visit any European physician without their CDs or films. It would be possible for patients to go to a hospital or a clinic in any European country and have their examinations done in a different country, analyzed and eventually compared with the examination done at that hospital. This paper analyzes two national projects that should be docume...

The growing accumulation of knowledge about fall prevention strategies primarily reflects a research perspective where intervention data are rigorously collected and analyzed. However, the voices of program deliverers or participants who are part of these interventions are often aggregated and thus muted. With recognition of the growing importance of patient-centered care, we wanted to provide ...