21 Does law matter regarding public health outcomes? Regardless of what one may think about the answer to this age-old question, in recent years the public health community has increasingly demonstrated and recognized the roles that public health laws and policies play in effectuating longlasting and broad-based population-wide changes.1 Public health laws and policies have been instrumental in...

this research is a analytical- descriptive study. the aim of this study is determination attitude of health centers authorities in tehran about roles and activities of community health nurse. the research instrument was a questionnaire with 33 questions that was made by the researcher. the data was collected through visit to research units in health centers. the result of research showed that t...

Several investigations demonstrated that anxiety is the most common mental health disorder worldwide affected about one in 13 people. Anxiety disorders are more commonly reported in Western societies but it is also a main health problem in non-Western countries as stress and anxiety levels have drastically increased over the last two decades. Several wars in Middle Eastern countries in the last...

Vaccines are one of the most successful public health achievements of the 20th century and have contributed to improved health and longevity for millions of people in the United States. Between 1900 and 2000 the average life expectancy in the United States increased by .30 years, from 43.7 to 76.8 years, and infant mortality through 12 months of age decreased from 100 per 1000 population to ,7 ...

With a new government in place since January and a woman, Dilma Rousseff , at the helm, together with an economic growth rate of 7·5% last year and a newly discovered oil fi eld off its coast, Brazil is a country in demand as a political and economic partner. Brazil now has an important and timely opportunity to cement its formidable health achievements towards its ultimate goal of universal, e...

as an international legal instrument, the international health regulations (ihr) is internationally binding in 196 countries, especially in all the member states of the world health organization (who). the ihr aims to prevent, protect against, control, and respond to the international spread of disease and aims to cut out unnecessary interruptions to traffic and trade. to meet ihr requirements,...

Advances in injury epidemiology and prevention are among the landmark achievements in epidemiology and public health in the past century. Despite remarkable success and growth, the field of injury epidemiology did not have its own publication outlet until now. This commentary marks the debut of the new academic journal Injury Epidemiology and introduces the reader to the first batch of peer-rev...

there is a good literature confirming the effects of social capital on different health domains. the increase in different types of cancer has caused scientists to encounter a number of issues regarding the reasons of affliction by this disease. the aim of this empirical research was to study the causal aspects of social capital of iranian patients with cancer.the study was a causal-comparative...