In Iran 8% of HIV- infected cases are women. Since most of them are young and in childbearing ages, in case of becoming pregnant and not receiving preventive measures, they can infect their child. Without Preventive measures transmission rate is 15 to 45 percent. Several factors such as sever stage of HIV and AIDS ,CD4 low count, high viral loud, acute retroviral phase, STDs, vaginal delivery, ...

Background: Given that a significant part of deaths due to traffic accidents are preventable in the prehospital phase, so it seems necessary to have an instrument to identify and measure the factors affecting it. This study aimed to develop and psychometrically assess an instrument for measuring preventable prehospital mortality due to traffic accidents. Methods: The study is a mixed qualitati...

OBJECTIVES To determine what proportion of research papers at an injury prevention conference reported an evaluation. METHODS A random sample of 250 abstracts from the 6th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control were classified by methodological type. Those that described any evaluation were further subdivided by whether the evaluation was of process or if it used an intermediate or...

OBJECTIVE To review and assess the quality of economic evaluation studies on injury prevention measures. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES Electronic databases searched included Medline (Pubmed), EMBASE, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and Safetylit. INCLUSION CRITERIA Empirical studies published in English in international peer-reviewed journals in the period 1998-2009. The subject of the...

This article describes the application of participatory evaluation principles and methods to designing and conducting a community survey of the metropolitan Boston Haitian population. The findings of the evaluation baseline community survey of 2,719 Haitians are described, including an overview of the population characteristics and the prevailing HIV prevention knowledge, attitudes, and practic...