this study was carried out to discover: 1) whether provision of medical care and social welfare affected the size of the family among laborers. 2) compare laborers family size with that of the total population of isfahan. 3) since social security receives its premium on the basis of salary rather than the number of dependents, then what is the cost of medical care for groups of single and marri...

1Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health and Institute of Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. ABSTRACT A diagnostic polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay using species-specific primers and direct sequencing was used to identify members of the Anopheles maculipennis complex in the north-west and central re...

AIM To study the trend of hepatocellular carcinoma incidence after correcting the misclassification in registering cancer incidence across Iranian provinces in cancer registry data. METHODS Incidence data of hepatocellular carcinoma were extracted from Iranian annual of national cancer registration reports 2004 to 2008. A Bayesian method was implemented to estimate the rate of misclassificati...

 Miss Rachel C Sumner – School of Health Sciences & Social Care, Brunel University, West London, UK  Dr Andrew Parton – School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, West London, UK  Dr Alexander V Nowicky – School of Health Sciences & Social Care, Brunel University, West London, UK  Dr Uday Kishore – School of Health Sciences & Social Care, Brunel University, West London, UK  Prof Yori Gi...

This paper tries to understand the current status of South African labor market, which is changing in contradictory directions, i.e. a strengthening of the rights and protection of workers at the same time as the flexibilization of employment, in the context of the characteristics of labor and social security legislation in South Africa, as well as the nature of labor and social security reform...