objective: to identify the effects of community-based interventions on the neonatal health index in one district of tehran-iran. materials and methods: a community and healthcare center-based study was carried out from january 2011 through september 2014. the population of the study included newborns from mothers residing in the 4 th district of tehran, iran. demographic data of mothers and inf...

background: national surveys in india have documented an increasing number of adolescent girls suffering from anemia. efforts to build iron stores in adolescent girls will help them improve their prepregnancy hemoglobin level. to assess the effectiveness of school-based supervised weekly, bi–weekly, and daily regimen of iron folic tablets in the treatment of anemia among adolescent girls. metho...

OBJECTIVE School-based sexual health education interventions can reach young people of diverse backgrounds and equip them with knowledge and skills for protecting themselves against HIV/AIDS, unwanted pregnancies, and live healthy and responsible lives. However, given that school-based sexual health education intervention are health projects implemented in educational settings, variety of socia...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a school-based intervention program for middle school adolescent girls with depression. METHODS The study was a pretest-posttest repeated-measure design with a nonequivalent control group. Fifty eight students with depressive symptoms were recruited from two middle schools in Seoul, Korea. The data were collected from the interv...

Background Maturity and its related sexual and mental changes are one of the most important events in the life of every individual. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of puberty health education based on Health Belief Model on health behaviors and preventive among students boy first secondary school in Marivan city in 2015. Materials and Methods This research is an experiment...

a study in egypt during june 2012-august 2013 revealed that there were a disastrous out break of foot and mouth disease where sat2 strain have been identified as the main reason for its  occurrence. trained and untrained persons routinely perform uncontrolled treatments leading to sever economic losses. the present paper represents an intervention that was developed to empower the community to ...

background drowning is a serious but neglected health problem in low-and middle-income countries. objectives to describe the effectiveness of drowning prevention program on the reduction of drowning mortality rates in rural settings at the north of iran, and guide its replication elsewhere. patients and methods this interventional design included pre- and post-intervention observations in the r...