The aerobic actinomycetes are a large group of soil-inhabiting bacteria that occur worldwide. Some of them are the main cause of two important diseases, nocardiosis and actinomycetoma. To identify the prevalence and geographic distribution of aerobic actinomycetes in soil of Qazvin province, a study was carried out during 2006-2007. In this study, the incidence and diversity of medically import...

A swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) emerged as a pandemic in 2009. We investigated the association between the overweight, metabolic syndrome and the severity of disease in the confirmed cases in Qazvin province, Iran. The study sample included all patients over 12 years old with confirmed influenza A (H1N1) in the province of Qazvin, Iran, in the 2009 pandemic, excluding pregnant women. To defin...

INTRODUCTION The length of stay (LOS) in hospitals is a widely used and important criteria for evaluating hospital performance. The aim of this study was to determine factors affecting LOS in teaching hospitals of Qazvin Providence. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, patients' health records were randomly selected from archives in teaching hospitals of Qazvin in 2013. Data were collected ...

Increasing private car ownership and dependency has led to a low share of walking as an active mode well congestion, air pollution, health problems in developing countries. This paper aims identify compare the impacts selection socio-economic, travel-related, built environment variables on likelihood respondents’ sensitivity distance, both for discretionary mandatory trips. The analysis drew it...

Shohada (Sepah) avenue in Qazvin, a historic city, is a part of Safavid era infrastructure of the city. It connects various important cites and poles like Jame' mosque, Imamzadeh Hosein, Dowlat-Khaneh and the Traditional Bazaar complex to one another. This axis in KhomarTashi, in Kabir Jame' mosque - preservation and restoration of Jame' mosque complex as principle core of the city which is ...

BACKGROUND Organizational learning has been identified as necessary for different organizations to improve their performance in the changing and competitive environment. PURPOSE The main purpose of this research was to specify the learning organization profile of educational and health centers of Tehran and Qazvin Universities of Medical Sciences in Iran. METHODOLOGY The present research wa...

Introduction: Hospitals may have an adverse effect on the environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) introduced concept of Green Hospital to reduce these complications while also improving purpose this study was assess how many hospitals in Qazvin met standards.Methods: This descriptive-observational carried out all that were included via census sampling method. standard green hospital qu...

Health related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important indicator of health status. Knowledge about factors related to HRQOL among military personnel may assist in designing programs to maximize their fitness and readiness for action when called upon. The aim of present study was to assess the HRQOL of military personnel in Iran, compare it to that of other populations in Iran and the U.S., and ...