total population of hormozgan pro vince of iran was 760,014 in 1365 and 10,045,085 in 1375, which shows a growth rate of %3/2 in 10 years. in comparison with other provinces. the growth rate is one of the highest in the country. th e aim of this study was to determine the fertility of hormozgan province. the method of study was cross - sectional and the sampling in a two stage s sampling of 200...

BACKGROUND Use of bed-net continues to offer potential strategy for malaria prevention in endemic areas. Local communities are indispensable during design and implementation stages. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 192 randomly selected inhabitants was carried out in malarious zone, Siahoo direstrict, Hormozgan Province, southern Iran. In addition, we monitored human landing periodicity of ...

BACKGROUND More than 170 million people in the world are infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Determination of HCV genotype before starting the treatment is required, because HCV genotype affects the course of treatment and drug dosage. OBJECTIVES We aimed to evaluate HCV genotypes among patients with positive results for anti-HCV in Bandar Abbas from 2011 to 2012. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fi...

BACKGROUND A successful malaria elimination program calls for enough attention to parasite carriers, especially asymptomatic malaria, as well as the diagnosis and treatment of clinical cases. Asymptomatic malaria is an infection that patients do not show any symptom; thus, these patients play critical role in the concept of an elimination program. The current investigation was conducted to eval...

the growth parameters, mortality rates and exploitation population dynamic parameters and exploitation rate of psettodes erumei were assessed between july 2010 to june 2011 using length frequency analysis. the data were collected from landing sites of jask, bandar abass, kong and qeshm hormozgan province waters. using total weight (w) and total length (tl) data, the length- weight relationship ...

Background: Education focuses on strengthening the performance of employees while improvement prepares them for other positions in organization. Objectives: The present study aimed to identify dimensions and components quality education rural health workers Hormozgan, Iran. Methods: current applied-descriptive reviewed healthcare (called “behvarz” Persian) based document Delphi methods. To this...