Background: Suicide prevention is one of the priorities in policies of Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME). The suicide prevention program had two main parts of identifying and treatment of the depressed and suicide high risk individuals by Primary Health Care (PHC) network. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the results of integration of the program into PHC netwo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the mass treatment of ascariasis in rural areas of Hamadan Province, Islamic Republic of Iran. METHODS A control programme in rural areas of Hamadan Province, which began in November 1997, involved giving all persons a single dose of 400 mg albendazole at intervals of three months. The efficacy of the treatment was evaluated by the formalin-ether concentration technique ...

BACKGROUND Cryptosporidium species are recognized as important gastrointestinal pathogens. This study was conducted to identify the prevalence, clinical manifestations and genotyping of Cryptosporidium spp. in patients with gastrointestinal illnesses (GIs) in western Iran. METHODS Overall, 1301 fecal samples were collected from patients with GIs referred to the 12 clinical laboratories in Nah...

Needs of human life from the beginning been an important factor We have been threatened by population growth, food security and human well- Men of science and technology with a new plan Maintain and improve their food security to make it work. In this investigation, meteorological data have been received from synoptic stations based on daily, monthly, and annually trend from Iran Meteorological...

for the first time, an unusual assemblage of talc-phengite-chlorite-k-feldspar was found in quartz schists from the sanandaj-sirjan zone in the nahavand area in western iran. the talc-bearing quartz schists occur as small bodies or lenses within pelitic schist layers and contain talc, phengite, chlorite, k-feldspar and quartz as major mineral constituents with subordinate amounts of calcite ...

field collection in nahavand county (hamedan province, iran) revealed 9 blister beetle (col: meloidae) species from three different tribes of subfamily meloinae. in tribe mylabrini, mylabris impressa chevrolat 1837, mylabris schreibersi reiche 1865, mylabris variabilis (pallas, 1781), mylabris guerini chevrolat 1837, lydoceras bilineatus thomas 1897 and croscherichia spp. pardo alcaide identifi...

Needs of human life from the beginning been an important factor We have been threatened by population growth, food security and human well- Men of science and technology with a new plan Maintain and improve their food security to make it work. In this investigation, meteorological data have been received from synoptic stations based on daily, monthly, and annually trend from Iran Meteorological...