inequality in the geographic distribution of health workers in the public health sector in iran rezaei s1 (msc), karamimatin b1 (phd), akbari sari a2* (phd) 1research center for environmental determinants of health, kermanshah university of medical sciences, kermanshah, iran. 2deptment of health management and economics, school of public health, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir...

introduction: given growing elderly population and high prevalence of oral and dental diseases in this age group, this study was conducted to investigate oral health status and related quality of life among older adults in yazd located in central iran. methods: the cross sectional study was carried out on 210 elderly people aged ≥ 60 years under the guise of yazd health care centers who entered...

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...