Since last decades, knowledge regarding health and physical performance has progressively developed and scientists try to find a variety of ways for their maintenance and specially promotion. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on interaction between environmental condition and responses of body tissues such as skeletal muscle. Environment is fundamental determinant for possible changes in our ...

Canadian health promotion organizations currently face two pressures. First, is the desire of health promotion organizations to seek methods which will help achieve health promotion goals. Second, external funders are increasingly likely to require that health promotion organizations adopt ‘quality’ procedures, such as Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI). This paper explores a set of questions...

background: more than 8% of iran's populations are elderly. the greatest challenge in this generation is improvement of health and quality of life. so we decided to perform an interventional study with the aim of promoting the health of the eld­erly. methods: this study was a community interventional in ekbatan complex. subjects were elderly. at first, need assessment was done with the particip...