The main purpose of this study was to investigate effect of access to health facilities on the health status of rural households at Kermanshah Province. Statistical pupation of this study consisted of all heads of rural households at Bisotoun district in Harsin Township, Kermanshah Province, Iran (N=1020), that 278 of them were selected by the cluster random sampling method. The main instrument...

the major purpose of this study was conducted to identify the challenges in application of icts inrural areas of iran. a questionnaire was developed and data collected from 187 extensionspecialists. the challenges was categorized by using factor analysis and results show challengeswere classified into organizational, technical, social, financial, regulatory and human factors byorder of their im...

In Iran, new centralization characteristic, especially during Pahlavi dynasty, has been convergence and its vast use in bureaucracy. Historical sociological studies have consensus on the issues of centralization, power centralization, and political sovereignty in Iran; however, these issues have some divisional interruptions and different levels of strength in some parts of the history. This es...

nowadays, empowerment causes the development of rural regions, because rural development is realized by changing and evolution of the knowledge, skill and attitude of rural people. for the simple reason that after accepting the new and newer ways, their thoughts will be changed. as a result, rural people will have a new attitude toward agricultural activities and other economic activities in ru...