BACKGROUND During the last decades, the number of dentistry units increased significantly across the country. The aim of this study was to assess the efficiency of dental units of Iran provinces regarding dental health inputs and outputs using Data Envelopment Analysis approach. METHODS In this applied descriptive-analytical study, the study population included all of Iran 31 provinces. The o...

The migration of refugees not only facilitates but also increases the risk of the spread of infectious diseases such as viral hepatitis. During the two last decades, because of 23 years (1978—2001) of civil war in Afghanistan, a considerable number of Afghan people have left their homeland and have migrated to neighboring countries. Iran, as Afghanistan’s western neighbor, has hosted approximat...

The modified law of Iranian Administrative divisions has greatly altered the pattern of settlement in recent decades. The promotion of rural areas to urban areas has shifted from mere population standard to combined population-administrative standards. However, all censuses suggest that many rural areas reported as smaller than the minimum population standard have been promoted to urban areas. ...

Department of Psychology, Faculty Literature and Humanities, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran , [email protected]

epidemiological features of some of several foci of cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl), such as bushehr province, had not been detected in iran. this study was carried out for detection and characterization of epidemiological features of cl in these regions, from oct. 1998 to oct. 1999. all of the primary school children aged 7-14 years and total populations of 14 villages were examined for the prese...