background: attention to worker's health and safety is one of the priorities in health and medical delivery system of iran. this study was to assess health, medical and safety activities in hamadan province industries having more than 50 workers in 1997 . methods: the study group was made up of 3377 workers. for collecting data a questionnaire was provided and sent to the subject industries. he...

background: prevalence of sexual dysfunction varies from 20% to 40% in men and women in different studies in iran. despite its high prevalence, it seems that this issue has been neglected, particularly in islamic countries. the aim of this study was to assess sexual health in iran. this was a mixed method study.   methods: data were collected through evaluating country's sexual health programs ...

NEUROPATHY At a symposium on neuropathy sponsored by the University of Texas Southwestern at the American Diabetes Association meeting in San Antonio, Texas, Soroku Yagihashi (Hirosaki, Japan) discussed aspects of the pathogenesis of distal symmetric polyneuropathy. In a recent survey in Tohoku, Japan, of 32,955 individuals with diabetes, history or symptoms of neuropathy made it the most commo...

Reading is a hobby to open the knowledge windows. Besides, it can provide the inspiration and spirit to face this life. By this way, concomitant with the technology development, many companies serve the e-book or book in soft file. The system of this book of course will be much easier. No worry to forget bringing the social change and womens reproductive health care book. You can open the devic...

From the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Department of Pharmacology, and Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, the Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, the Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 194223, Russia, the Department of Medical Ch...

Women decision making is giving legitimate power or authority to perform the tasks. If women were free take their own decisions, they would be able participate in planning and task contribute development programmes activities individually. The process of freedom should start from our home. Womens position household determines womens autonomy family. It worth examine whether she can decide about...

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results almost half of the veterans did not demonstrate any psychopathology and half of them were diagnosed with borderline or serious psychopathology. veterans receiving disability pension had more mental problems in comparison with the employed veterans. veterans receiving disability pension had higher scores in psychosomatic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety, phob...

background despite high immunization rates, hundreds of thousands of poor and underserved children continue to lack their necessary immunizations and are at risk of acquiring a vaccine-preventable disease. local health departments (lhds) and public health clinicians figure prominently in efforts to address this problem.   methods this exploratory research compared ten (10) north carolina lhds w...