Political office holders are chiefly entrusted with the formulation and implementation of government policies and programmes designed to enhance sustainable development. Their activities can therefore make or unmake a nation, geo-political region initiative. The mental health and emotional intelligence of political office holders had been linked with their personal growth initiative and a...

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background & aims of the study: disregarding the health and use of polluted equipment in barbers lead to microbial infection expansion, skin diseases and particularly hematic diseases including aids and hepatitis. hence, the aim of present study is determining the health condition of female barbers of kangavar city, iran, in order to improve the health level and public health. methods: in this ...

Search engines and social networks are increasingly used for health related inquiry by the public. The information found through search engines, or presented by social network services are typically tailored to the individual through the use of complex algorithms taking into consideration comprehensive information about the individual performing the search, often without the knowledge of the se...

OBJECTIVE This article describes the use of a personal digital assistant (PDA) as a projection device for PowerPoint presentations. CONCLUSION Advances in hardware and software have made PDA devices capable of storing, accessing, retrieving, and sharing data, and their use is becoming increasingly evident in the health care arena. In this article, I describe a use for the PDA that will furthe...

In many countries around the world, including Iran, obesity is reaching epidemic proportions. Doctors have recently taken, or expressed support for, an extreme ‘personal responsibility for health’ policy against obesity: refusing services to obese patients. This policy may initially seem to improve patients’ incentives to fight obesity. But turning access to medical services into a benefit depe...

Background and aims: The most important risk factors threatening health of young people include improper diet, inactivity, smoking, intentional and accidental damages, drugs, AIDS/HIV and psychiatric disorders. Considering increased risky behaviors among teens during 2 last decades, it was decided to evaluate the effects of education and consultation roles in relation to health...

background: to compare mental health and well- being in different levels of the perceived discrimination among iranian people living in tehran. method: using multi- stage sampling, 1255 subjects with the average age of 45 years and 9 months (including 672 women and 583 men) were selected and they completed all items of the general health questionnaire (ghq), the social well- being inventory (sw...

BACKGROUND Several obstacles prevent the adoption and use of personal health record (PHR) systems, including users' concerns regarding the privacy and security of their personal health information. OBJECTIVE To analyze the privacy and security characteristics of PHR privacy policies. It is hoped that identification of the strengths and weaknesses of the PHR systems will be useful for PHR user...