Issue addressed Herein we discuss translational challenges for new media interventions, using the Sexual Health & Youth (SHY) short message service (SMS) project to illustrate particular challenges relating to recruitment and evaluation. Methods Following the delivery of an SMS sexual health program, available documents (progress reports, communications with project staff, ethics submissions an...

We examined dietary habits, food intakes, health status, and school and community life of meal skipping children, and investigated factors predicting meal skipping of children. A sample was composed of 944 children in low-income families who were provided with public meal service. The sample was obtained from the Survey of Meal Service for Poor Children conducted by the Korea Institute for Heal...

the judicial practice of the international courts and tribunals – especiallyinternational court of justice – as the most important official entities forsurveying and identifying legal rules, has always been a valuable source inthe recognition of customary international law. in the recent decades, as aresult of developments caused by improving human concepts and humanityprinciples in the interna...

background awareness of pharmacists about counterfeit drugs is necessary for health improvement in community. the purpose of the present study is to assess the knowledge and measure the professional attitude and practice of iranian pharmacist about counterfeit drugs. in august 2008, a knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) study was performed in a national sample of 794 pharmacists who particip...

background: assessment of national children growth has shown that a high percent of country's children are afflicted to growth failure. community participation is one of the principles of phc emphasized by who that is necessary for develop­ment of health services. the objective of this study was to develop a model for mother's participation in order to improving growth and nutrition of children...

Background: The existence of a gap between theory and practice in nursing is a problem that is rooted in the history of nursing education, which means that there is a difference between what the student at the college and the behavior that appears in the clinic, and this discrepancy is of concern to community health educators. A coherent understanding of the learning and practice gap is a cruci...

abstractthe present study aimed to evaluate pharmacy practice regarding dietary supplements in tehran (i.r. iran). so, the factors affecting on pharmacists' practice including their knowledge, attitude, and some underlying factors were evaluated. this is an observational knowledge; attitude and practice (kap) study. the unit of analysis include community pharmacies located in tehran. the d...