Introduction: Women are facing inequalities including health, thus their health deserves attention. Investigating people’s health status from their viewpoints is an important measure in terms of public health of society and an indicator to determine the efficiency of health system.  This study aimed at evaluating the self-assessed health of older women living in Shiraz and Yasuj. ...

introduction: diabetes is the most common disease related to metabolism disorders with long term complications. it needs lifelong specific self-care, as it causes a promotion in quality of life and decreases disease costs. the health belief model (hbm) is a psychological model that attempts to explain and predict health behaviors. this is done by focusing on the attitudes and beliefs of individ...

the world health organization quality of life-bref (whoqol-bref) has generally been used for patients, few studies in migrants who move from rural to urban within one country. many studies asserted that social isolation presents a risk to individual health. poor social networks are associated with worse qol. this study examined health-related quality of life (hrqol) and social support in new-ge...

conclusions according to the results of the study, health-promoting model-based self-care behaviors can help identify and predict cardiac surgery patients’ lifestyles in iran. this pattern can be used as a framework for discharge planning and the implementation of educational interventions to improve the lifestyles of cabg patients. background advances in coronary artery surgery have reduced pa...

Social health is essential to social development of rural communities, especially rural women, in order to promote their welfare as well as their human and social capital. The present research was applied in terms of objective, and it was implemented using different approaches to examine the social health of rural women and its determinants in Kermanshah Province, Iran. The research method was ...