OBJECTIVES To evaluate the duties of regional healthcare workers (Behvarzes) regarding healthcare of pupils in the rural areas of Iran. METHOD This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in 2007-2008 on 384 pupils and their school managers in the rural areas of Sharbabak in Kerman, Iran. The research population was evaluated with separate questionnaires for the managers and the pupi...

Background: Today, air pollution is a major issue in the world, particularly metropolitan areas. Objectives: Accordingly, this study aimed to investigate relation between and mortality elderly Kerman City. Methods: This ecological was conducted using 2006 - 2013 data inquired from Deputy of Health University Medical Sciences. The on cardiovascular respiratory mortality, as well death due trauma...

BACKGROUND Improving maternal health is globally introduced as an important health priority. The purpose of this study is to identify the high priority areas which require more maternal health services in Kerman, Iran. METHODS This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, performed in 2015. The literatures were first explored in order to extract geographic indicators and sub indicators relevan...

BACKGROUND More than a billion people have some form of disabilities worldwide. Persons living with a disability have many needs (including physically, mentally, and socially needs). Estimating the size of disabled population is a challenge in health systems. An innovative indirect method to estimate the size of populations is network scale up (NSU) having widely used for hidden populations. Th...

BACKGROUND The races show different cerebrovascular involvements, for example, the involvement of intracranial arteries are higher among Asians than Caucasians. The aim of this study was to investigate the cerebrovascular stenosis pattern by computed tomography angiography (CTA), which is unprecedented in Iran. METHODS In this study, patients with brain stroke (thrombosis), confirmed by CT sc...