Mohammad Hasan Imani Nasab, Hesam Seyedin, Reza Majdzadeh, Bahareh Yazdizadeh, Masoud Salehi. Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran; Health Management and Economics Research Center, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Sch...

1Center for Health-Related Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, IR Iran 2School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, IR Iran 4Candidate, School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, IR Iran 5School of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran,...

1. Substance Abuse and Dependence Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Los Angeles, USA 3. Dept. of Pathology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 4. Dept. of Neuroscience and Addiction, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine (SATiM), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehr...

  Abstract   Background: Inequalities in health are ever increasing among different communities   of either affluent or disadvantaged especially in urban areas. To identify and address inequalities in health and its determinants among societies, urban health equity assessment and response tool (Urban HEART) in four 'policy domains' related to social determinants of health, has been developed by...

1. Dept. of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Iran 2. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Dept. of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran 4. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran Unive...

BACKGROUND The workers who are working in the open and warm environments are at risk of health effects of climate and heat changes. It is expected that the risk is increase with global warming. This study aimed to investigate the changes of Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) index in the past and to predict their trend of future changes in Tehran, capital of Iran. METHODS The meteorological da...

This Global Public Health Special Issue ‘SRHR for the next decades: What’s been achieved? What lies ahead?’ assesses progress 20 years after the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), which established the sexual and reproductive health and rights framework for population and health policy (United Nations [UN], 1995). Contributors from different regions demonstrate ...

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