pierre-gerlier forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. in this commentary, i develop an additional argument in support of forest et al view. forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. translation of externally generated i...

objectives: within the context of health-related quality of life studies, it was necessary to translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of the sf-12 health survey version 2. the aim of this study was to investigate the factorial structure, convergent validity and reliability of this instrument in a healthy iranian sample, following translation and establishment of content and face vali...

aims: the presence of a patient with breast cancer in the family can be considered as aguidance for further prevention and increase the susceptibility of people against this disease.champion's health belief model scale is translated and tested in different countries, but fewattempts have been made to measure this scale in women with history of breast cancer.methods: after the standard champion'...

aim and background: in this study, the psychometric properties and hierarchal structural validity of short form health survey scale (sf-36) among students using structural equating modeling was investigated. methods and materials: a sample with 310 students (158 male and 152 female) from tehran university were chosen by multistage sampling method. for verifying discernment validity, two clinica...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background : according to beck theory, dysfunctional attitude has a central role in emergence of depression. the aim of this study was to determine contributions of dysfunctional attitude and general health index to depression. methods : in this case-control study, two groups of subjects participated. the first group consi...