Mohammadhiwa Abdekhoda, Narges Salehi, Afsaneh Dehnad. Assistance professor of health information management, department of medical library and information science. School of health management and medical informatics. Tabriz University of medical sciences. Tabriz, Iran; Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management (IceHM).School of Management and Medical Informatics. Tabriz University of M...

We have read the article written by AlKhawari et al. (1) published in the June 2005 issue of this journal with full interest. The authors have quoted sentences with reference to our article (2). Because certain phrases may be confusing to some readers, we would like to elucidate a few points. The authors stated that ‘Donation is sanctioned by religious and national law in Iran (although there i...

Haemoglobin levels were used to estimate the prevalence of anaemia in children 2-12 years old in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The study was part of the National Health and Disease Survey in 1999 that used a cluster sample of 1 in 1000 of the Iranian population. Of 4170 children aged 2-6 years, 7.3% were diagnosed with mild anaemia, 2.5% moderate anaemia and 1.0% severe anaemia (WHO definitions...

This report describes the steps in the development of an accreditation system for medical universities in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The national accreditation project, supported by the government, was performed from 2001 to 2005. The project was carried out in 3 main phases, each phase including a number of tasks. After a review of the international literature on accreditation and through n...

This study determined the resistance pattern of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to 4 first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs in children with pulmonary tuberculosis at the Iranian National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases from 1999 to 2004. There were 350 children with positive cultures over the study period: 7 (2%) were resistant to at least one of the 4 anti-tuberculosis drugs. Prim...

associating certain forms and designs in islamic arts with the promised heaven may be widely observed in the works of many historians and critics of the field. it is believed that islamic art has been derived from the imagination of the paradise as depicted in holy quran. to express this meaning in technical words it should be said that the main concept in islamic arts has been the gardens of h...

The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of caesarean section in the Islamic Republic of Iran in different provinces and to compare the sociodemographic characteristics of married women with and without caesarean section. Data were analysed from the Iranian Demographic and Health Survey of a representative sample of married women (n = 17,991) who delivered a baby between Septembe...

This study in 2006 estimated the hepatitis B virus (BHV) vaccination coverage in the Islamic Republic of Iran at the national and district levels in urban, rural and remote populations of 41 university health service areas. Of 21 905 children recruited to the study, vaccination coverage based on vaccination card records was 100% in 14, 15 and 10 of the 41 university areas for the 1st, 2nd and 3...

From the beginning of Shang Dynasty to end Qing development Chinese classical landscape gardens went through five periods: formation period Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties, transition Wei, Jin, Southern Northern heyday Tang Dynasty, maturity Song, Yuan, Ming middle Dynasty. Five thousand years glorious culture makes different from Western Islamic gardens. The unique garden system style give ...

Mohammadhiwa Abdekhoda, Narges Salehi, Vahide zare Gavgani. Assistance Professor of Health Information Management, Department of Medical Library and Information Science. School of Health Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of medical science, Tabriz, Iran; Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management (IceHM).School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University ...