Social networks provide people with an opportunity to form social clusters that share interests not only sporadically, but on a regular basis (circles of fans of different music, books, kinds of sports, etc.). Every circle communicates these interests creating lots of linguistic data to attract new followers and support interests of the existing ones. In the present article, we suggest a lingui...

introduction: non-integrated health information has forced health sector to utilize information and communication technology (ict). national health information infrastructure (nhii) integrates clinical and health information, decreases medical errors as well as costs, and increases patient’s safety. thus, this article aimed to review the feasibility of nhii implementation in iran from perspecti...

national health information network (nhin) is a network in which all health care organizations, government agencies and other health-related organizations are connected to each other to exchange information about health. due to the necessity of a framework for nhin development, in this paper, according to the literature review, a definition for nhin framework was provided, and then the nhin rel...

OBJECTIVE To examine in depth the views and experiences of continence service leads in England on key service and continence management characteristics in order to identify and to improve our understanding of barriers to a good-quality service and potential facilitators to develop and to improve services for older people with urinary incontinence (UI). DESIGN Qualitative semistructured interv...

BACKGROUND Understanding the social environmental around obesity has been limited by available data. One promising approach used to bridge similar gaps elsewhere is to use passively generated digital data. PURPOSE This article explores the relationship between online social environment via web-based social networks and population obesity prevalence. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional st...

Background and aims: Recent studies on mortality in Iran, in recent years clearly emphasize that unintentional injuries are the main cause of reducing Iranian life expectancy in Iran. This article aimed to assess the role of major causes of death for mortality patterns in the country by sex in 2010. Methods: Experimental results of this study are based on...

An important part of the national debate about how to manage federal spending in the decades ahead has focused on spending for Medicare, which is expected to account for a large and ever-increasing share of the federal budget. Medicare provides health insurance to almost everyone who is 65 or older and to people under age 65 who receive Social Security Disability Insurance benefits (after a wai...