providing and promoting the health is one of the most fundamental human social evolution dimensions, that perhaps more than other aspects of development needs public cooperation. health volunteers are pioneers who have volunteered to step in providing and improving community health. the present study determines the role of health volunteers in maternal indicators of pakdasht health network. thi...

background: the advent of new technologies with widespread dissemination of information has caused a fundamental change in information and educational resources. on the other hand, selection of an appropriate and valuable source of information in the field of health education is essential. therefore, this study was designed and implemented with the objective of comparing health center’s staff o...

background in many parts of the world, ongoing deficiencies in health systems compromise the delivery of health interventions. the world health organization (who) identified four functions that health systems need to perform to achieve their goals: efforts to strengthen health systems focus on the way these functions are carried out. while a number of studies on health systems functions have be...

background scholars describe poor health literacy as a “silent epidemic,” which is challenging the functioning of healthcare systems all over the world. health literacy is mainly meant as an individual trait which concerns the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information in order to effectively navigate the health system. low health literate patients perceive poor self-ef...

introduction: psychological and social health is the main problems of workers population, which can increase productivity at work and physical and mental health and provide or decline in these aspects. materials and methods: this study was descriptive and crosses - sectional and has been performed on 388 iranian central iron ore company workers. the tool of study was standard ghq-28 question ar...

background many dental problems such as tooth decay starts from childhood. in this regard, attitudes and beliefs of mothers about oral-dental health are important. the aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting oral-dental health in children of the mothers who referred to the qom health centers by using of the health belief model. materials and methods this is cross-sectional desc...

the purpose of this study was comparison the mean numbers of health knowledge & attitude and practice of first and last year students in hamadan university of medical sciences. the studied populations were 301 first year medical students and 233 last year medical students in different subjects; they were compared with a sample population of bou- ali university students as control group. the res...

background: an obvious gradient in health outcomes has been implicated in many evidences relating to social and economic factors. proper data are requested to convince policy-makers calling for intersectoral action for health. recently, i.r. of iran has come up with 52 health equity indicators to monitor health equity through the country. conducting regular surveys on 14 out of 52 national heal...

background: attention to worker's health and safety is one of the priorities in health and medical delivery system of iran. this study was to assess health, medical and safety activities in hamadan province industries having more than 50 workers in 1997 . methods: the study group was made up of 3377 workers. for collecting data a questionnaire was provided and sent to the subject industries. he...

in fact, health strategists and policymakers contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of planning, providing and evaluating health care, and the use of various capabilities of itc. the evidence for this claim includes: e-government, e-development, e-commerce, e-assurance and the same issues which are pursued in high levels of govemment’s legislative and executive bodies. e-health is consi...