introduction: health tourism is an organized travel we make from where we live to another place to keep, regain, and improve physical and mental health. it can be also a national strategy to improve national income and some believe that it can be an integral part of national security. the present study is an attempt to determine the relationship between observance of the standards of internatio...

The test materials and data on which this study is based were drawn from the 1992 and 1996 mathematics testing programs conducted by the Education Department of Western Australia as part of the Monitoring Standards in Education project. The work for the Report was supported in part by an Australian Research Council grant with the Australian National Ministerial Council on Employment, Education,...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The aim of this study was to evaluate x-ray protection methods in dental offices in Tabriz. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study 142 dental offices were evaluated. A questionnaire-based method was used. The data was analyzed by descriptive methods. RESULTS The least commonly used methods were leaded walls (4.9%) and film badges (16.9%) and the most commonly used methods w...

Professionals working in the multidisciplinary field of eHealth vary in their educational background. However, knowledge in the areas of medicine, engineering and management is required to fulfil the tasks associated with eHealth sufficiently. Based on the results of an analysis of national and international educational offers a survey gathering user requirements for the development of knowledg...

one of the most important challenge facing international community and international criminal law is the increasing expansion of terrorist acts and operations which is a serious threat to international peace and security. this dreadful phenomenon usually occurs in organized forms transnationally. threats caused by terrorism are more than individual offences and to encounter it effectively is in...

traditional agriculture and non-chemical crop production have a long story; however organic agriculture which relies on local and in-farm inputs, with the aim of protecting ecological balances and developing biological cycles on the one hand while regarding regulations and specific standards on the other hand, doesn’t have a very long history. there are numerous environmental reasons for the pr...

Nowadays harmonization of sanitary and hygienic standards of environmental quality with international standards is crucial part of integration of Russia into the international community. Harmonization of Russian and international ambient air quality standards may be realized by risk-based standards development. In this paper approaches to risk-based standards development and examples of these a...

uring a recent strategic planning session, the leadership of the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) discussed its potential role in the international pediatric community. For the first 75 years of its existence, the ABP has focused on the American public, with the singular mission to improve the quality of care for the country’s children by setting the standards that impact the training and ass...