background: this study examined the association between incident pulmonary tuberculosis (tb) and social and behavioral characteristics in almaty oblast, kazakhstan from 2012 to 2013. methods: we used a matched case-control design to estimate the role of factors for acquiring pulmonary tb. totally 324 individuals were recruited from sep 2012 to mar 2013. participants included 110 tb index cases ...

background: to check the feasibility of using geographical information system (gis) methods, we linked the brucellosis data of human and animals. methods: in a village-based ecological study in bardsir- a district in kerman province located nearly to the central part of iran- data of human brucellosis, socio-economic level, and livestock characteristics (2001-4) were linked by using gis methods...

introduction: andropause is a common clinical entity of advanced age, with a decline in androgen levels in males. many of the signs of male aging are results of this condition with significant decline in their quality of life and adverse effects on multiple organ systems function. androgen deficiency of the aging male (adam) questionnaire is one of the most applied screening tools for androgen ...

abstract: background and aim:cardio vascular diseases (cvds) are important cause of morbidity and mortality in world wide and constitutes a major public health problem in iran . due to increase of cvd in this contex ,the bjective of this study was to describe the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors amony gonabad urban population. materials and methods:in this cross sectional study , a tot...

Background Infertility is the inability to conceive children after one year of unprotected intercourse. The estimated prevalence of infertility in Canada is 11.5-15.7%. Fertility problems affect approximately one in seven couples in the United Kingdom (UK). Infertility occurs in conditions in which the pregnancies end with recurrent miscarriages (ASR) or birth of a child with multiple congenita...

Background & aim: AIDS is one of the major public health challenges all over the world. Perceived risk is a significant predictor of high-risk behaviors related to AIDS. Women constitute more than half of the HIV patients, and the rate of female sex workers with AIDS is more than the rest of female population. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate AIDS risk perception and its related f...

Introduction: Nowadays ionizing radiation has a considerable contribution in medical diagnostic and treatment. Using ionizing radiation is increasing rapidly, so biological effects of ionizing radiation should be considered more. X-rays in the range of diagnostic radiology have hazardous effects and risks that are defined as random effects. These effects obey the LNT hypothesis that occur at lo...

The present study aimed to determine the effect of risk management on supply chain management(case study: Saipa Company). This study was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of data collection method. The tools used in this study include the 29-item questionnaire. The statistical population of this study included 110 managers of Saipa Company in Tehran. In this stu...

the present paper aimed at studying the current models of credit portfolio management. there are currently three types of models which consider the risk of credit portfolio: the structural models (moody's kmv model, and credit- metrics model), the intensity models (the actuarial models) and the econometric models (the macro-factors model). the development of these three types of models is based...

conclusions the prevalence of msds among the nurses was high, and the occurrence of such disorders was found to be related to the scores of mapo and ptai indices. based on the results, these two indices can be used as appropriate tools to assess the risk of msds in patient handling by nursing staff. the risk of developing msds can be lowered through interventional programs, such as providing an...