back ground anemia in pregnancy is associated with increased rates of maternal and perinatal mortality, premature delivery, low birth weight, and other adverse outcomes materials and methods a prospective study was conducted on 1405 iranian pregnant women who delivered during 2015. blood was collected from all the subjects to measure the hemoglobin (hb) during 16-19 weeks, 22-24 weeks, and 34-3...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to analyze the prevalence of overweight and obesity among active duty staff members at one the Navy's largest medical centers, in an effort to clarify the relationship between weight, physical fitness, health care utilization patterns, and health care costs. METHODS Data obtained from the Physical Readiness Information Management System were linked with...

a bstrac t   background: organizational and structural obstacles are a group of major obstacles in achievement of appropriate family planning counseling. detection of these obstacles from the viewpoint of managers, staffs and clients who are key members in health services providing system is a major step toward appropriate planning to modify or delete this group of obstacles. the present study ...

At the time of the writing of this article, there are three operational telemedicine control centers in Bucharest, Targul-Mures, and Iasi; however, the current telemedicine infrastructure has limited geographic coverage and is exclusively used in the field of emergency medicine with only few promising beginnings in the domain of family medicine. Nevertheless, many areas of Romania are still lac...