BACKGROUND Organ donation in Iran is common. Bojnurd (North Khorasan, Iran) is a multi-ethnic city, and people with different religions and cultures live together and that could be associated with their behavior and attitude towards health-related issues. So far, no study has taken place on brain death and organ donation in the province of North Khorasan. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was t...

Citizenship tests are designed to ensure that new citizens have the knowledge required for successful 'integration'. This article explores what those who have taken the test thought about its content. It argues that new citizens had high levels of awareness of debates about immigration and anti-immigration sentiment. Considering new citizens' views of the test, the article shows how many of the...

A BSTRACT We propose a context-dependent approach to the study of political information. Combining a content analysis of broadcast news with a national survey measuring public awareness of various events, issues, and individuals in the news, we show that properties of national media systems influence both the supply of news and citizens’ awareness of events in the news. Public service-oriented ...

Community engagement, i.e., attracting eyeballs of citizens to focus on their civic government and its functioning is a vital aspect in nurturing healthy democracy at the local level, in both developed and developing countries. This paper looks into specific instances such as graffiti reporting through social media (in a developed country), collaborative focus on local community infrastructure ...

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, exposure to global cultures affords individuals opportunities to develop global identities. In two studies, we examine the antecedents and outcomes of identifying with a superordinate identity--global citizen. Global citizenship is defined as awareness, caring, and embracing cultural diversity while promoting social justice and sustainability, c...

background: cancer is one of the three health issues of the society and the third cause of mortality in iran. food habits play a significant role in preventing cancer. the present study therefore, was carried out to assess food habits of tehran citizens for cancer prevention. methods: this study is a cross- sectional study was conducted with a sample of 2500 tehran citizens who were recruited t...

The research is to assess the level of public awareness of civil rights in the province of North Khorasan. The sample survey of 384 residents in North Khorasan Province was asked. Framework using comments of Parsons, and Turner was explained by Hambermas and Marshal. This study investigated the hypothesis (the public sector, education and age) there is a positive correlation among them, but the...

OBJECTIVE To contribute evidence relevant to the policy of supplying iodised salt (IS), non-iodised salt (NIS) or both in Chinese cities. DESIGN Subnational telephone interview survey. SETTING China. PARTICIPANTS Totally, 24 557 telephone numbers were dialled and 4833 citizens accepted the telephone interview. The telephone numbers were randomly selected by random digit dialling and a Mit...

in addition to technical, economic and environmental factors, public acceptance plays an important role in successful treated wastewater reuse projects. the aim of this study is to evaluate yazd citizens’ awareness regarding water and wastewater issues and public acceptance towards wastewater reuse by questionnaire-type survey. for this purpose 250 questionnaires were distributed and filled out...