objective: there have been concerns about people with mental health problems experiencing harassment in the iranian community. this study measures the prevalence and nature of harassment experienced by individuals with mental health problems and compares them with the general population. methods : face to face interviews were conducted by trained interviewers to ascertain experiences of harassm...

OBJECTIVE To document with whom family physicians communicate when evaluating adolescents with mental health problems, to whom they refer these adolescents, and their knowledge and perceptions of the accessibility of mental health services in their communities. DESIGN Mailed survey completed anonymously. SETTING Province of Quebec. PARTICIPANTS All general practitioners who reported seein...

Introduction: Health promoting behaviors (HPBs) are one of the main criteria to determine health. HPBs have a complex nature and are influenced by several factors. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between HPBs and general health in the elderly in Qazvin. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 372 older people were enrolled using convenience sampling. Data were collected...

Yogi Berra’s well-known quote is particularly apt when applied to recent attempts to measure the U.S. generalist–specialist medical workforce and to predict future workforce distributions.1–3 Predictions of a physician surplus by the year 2000 have featured in studies conducted in the 1990s on behalf of the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME).4 Increased demand for generalists was ant...

BACKGROUND Lived health is a person's level of functioning in his or her current environment and depends both on the person's environment and biological health. Our study addresses the question whether biological health or lived health is more predictive of self-reported general health (SRGH). METHODS This is a psychometric study using cross-sectional data from the Spanish Survey on Disabilit...

ôbjective: psychological status of university students has an important role in their academic performance. the present study was planned to evaluate the psychological view of new entrance students of shaheed sadoughi üniversity of medical sciences. methods: general health questionnaire (ghq-28) was used to collect data from 1689 students who visited the âdvisory and guidance çenter of the üniv...

improvements in knowledge as well as technology and industrial workers’ exposure to adverse factors have caused more attention to be paid to the workers’ occupational health. according to the report by w.h.o., noise, as one of the most important physical factors of workplace, causes 4 million dollars health damage every day. noise can also reduce the workers’ morale as well as motivation and, c...