background: skin cancer is a serious public health problem in the world. its prevalence in many countries has been increased in recent years. this study aimed to assess the effects of a theory-based educational intervention to promote skin cancer preventive behaviors (scpbs) among rural farmers in chalderan county, iran.   methods: this was a quasi-randomized controlled field trial study conduc...

this study addresses the question of whether conservative methods of restoration may be applied efficaciously in permanent posterior teeth with proximal lesions and intact occlusal preventive resin restoration (prr). the purpose of the present study was to assess the microleakage at amalgam-composite interface and composite-composite interface in permanent tooth with prr.thirty-five premolar te...

background: the belief, attitude, subjective norm, enabling factors (basnef) model is one of the most complete models for evaluating behaviors and creating new behaviors. therefore, this research was designed and performed to describe factors related to cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) preventive behaviors on the basis of the basnef model in endemic areas of yazd, iran. methods: in this cross-secti...

a group of high school students attended 7 educational sessions for a preventive drug abuse program. the students were exposed to drug abusers and their families. drug abusers and their families informed the subjects about the consequences of addiction in their life: how they became addicted and how the addiction worsened their psychosocial life. moreover their families explained to students th...

The immune system provides organisms with robustness against pathogen threats, yet it also often adversely affects the organism as in autoimmune diseases. Recently, the molecular interactions involved in the immune system have been uncovered. At the same time, the role of the bacterial flora and its interactions with the host immune system have been identified. In this article, we try to reconc...

Virus infections are a major global public health concern, and only via substantial knowledge of virus pathogenesis and antiviral immune responses can we develop and improve medical treatments, and preventive and therapeutic vaccines. Innate immunity and the shaping of efficient early immune responses are essential for control of viral infections. In order to trigger an efficient antiviral defe...

Four weeks after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, US combat troops began bombing missions over Afghanistan in Operation Enduring Freedom. Additional Reserve and National Guard personnel were called to active duty to support the war effort and to ensure security throughout the United States. All of these troops will require health care and assistance during and a...

THE INNOVATION The problem that we are trying to solve is the low uptake of preventive care advice. Unfortunately, many opportunities for family physicians and practice nurses to provide preventive care are missed,1 and reminders that are e-mailed or texted to patients, advertised on posters, or presented to clinicians on screen are often ineffective. Patients have the strongest interest in rec...

Every society has got a body of beliefs. norms and concepts with regard to the nature of disease and its treatment. These are clos ely integrated with the cultural matrix or social organization of the society. According to their own concepts of cause and prevention, the people practise some form of preventive medicine. The character and dynamism of any form of preventive and curative medicine d...

Digital Revolution has forced previously isolated networks of critical infrastructures to become more digitally integrated. Recent cyber-attacks, including Stuxnet and Wiper, have exposed a new set cybersecurity vulnerabilities in this field. This environment like utilities or power plants paper offers view into the most efficient current defense solutions. It also glimpse need for further deve...