objective: in some areas of iran self -immolation is one of the most common ways for committing suicide and it is very disturbing and painful for those who witness it. due to the presence of the families/relatives of the self-immolation victims in the psychiatric clinics seeking for the treatment of ptsd sings, we decided to carry out a research in this respect. method: this descriptive cross-s...

The concept of economic self-reliance, widely known by Thai people as the philosophy of sufficiency economy, has been widely promoted in rural Thai societies. By practicing this philosophy, it is expected that the citizens’ quality of life and local environments could be sustainably improved. This study aims to explore the contribution of the community practices of the sufficiency economy philo...

BACKGROUND Information and behaviour can spread through interpersonal ties. By targeting influential individuals, health interventions that harness the distributive properties of social networks could be made more effective and efficient than those that do not. Our aim was to assess which targeting methods produce the greatest cascades or spillover effects and hence maximise population-level be...

Objective To investigate the relationship between the fat intake and the morbidity of hyperglycemia(the fasting blood glucose over 6.1mmol/L, or the blood glucose one hour after the meal over 11.1mmol/L, or the blood glucose two hours after the meal over 7.8mmol/L, or the participants diagnosed diabetes previously) of middle aged and elderly people in Zhang Fang village, Fang Shan District, Bei...

Blood examination was conducted for the four Gidra-speaking village groups in Papua New Guinea, who were characterized by high Fe intake and high malaria prevalence with marked inter-village differences. The northern riverine villagers, whose Fe intake was higher than the other three village groups, did not suffer from Fe-deficiency anaemia in their malaria-endemic environment; nor did the inla...

Transformative and indigenous research frameworks can help facilitate social change; however, few studies have demonstrated their application to the study of injustices wildlife conservation in neo-colonial African contexts. This illustrates opportunities limitations presented by these through a reflexive account PhD journey at conflict private border Zimbabwe. Villagers rescued from failing st...