conclusions development of the job and task analysis to ensure providing the right training needs, applying more evidences through different studies for reforms, more decentralized equipped system with decision-making tools have been proposed for development. results the results showed the specific method of student selection and clear objectives and standards of training related to the health ...

a number of individuals and organizations have considerable influence over the selection of global health priorities and strategies. for some that influence derives from control over financial resources. for others it comes from expertise and claims to moral authority—what can be termed, respectively, epistemic and normative power. in contrast to financial power, we commonly take for granted th...

this article agrees with recent arguments suggesting that normative and epistemic power is rife within global health policy and provides further examples of such. however, in doing so, it is argued that it is equally important to recognize that global health is, and always will be, deeply political and that some form of power is not only necessary for the system to advance, but also to try and ...

jeremy shiffman’s editorial appropriately calls on making all forms of power more apparent and accountable, notably productive power derived from expertise and claims to moral authority. this commentary argues that relationships based on productive power can be especially difficult to reveal in global health policy because of embedded notions about the nature of power and politics. yet, it is e...

background: parents and teachers involvement reinforce health promotion programs for children's health. objectives: the purpose of this study was to evaluate mothers’ lifestyle behavior and its association with children's oral health. materials and methods: the study was a cross sectional study on 383 children and their mothers who were selected from 6 primary schools in tehran, iran. mothers a...

background domestic violence is one of the major health problems among women. promoting preventive behaviors of domestic violence among women and girls can play crucial role in reducing this health problem. objectives this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of an intervention based on precede-proceed model on preventive behaviors of domestic violence among iranian high school girls. pat...

a recent editorial in this journal provides a summary of key economic, social, and public health considerations of the forthcoming legislation to legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana in canada. as our government plans to implement an evidence-based public health framework for marijuana legalization, we reflect and expand on recent discussions of the public health implications of...

background: this study explores the level of occupational stress and main sources of occupational and personal stress among rural health workers (rhw) of the health network of mashhad district. method: the first part of the occupational stress inventory (osi) (called the occupational roles questionnaire (orq)) was used to measure the rural health workers occupational stress (n=172). a number of...

objectives: the present study aimed at studying the health status of the elderly supported by imam khomeini relief foundation in birjand in 2007. methods & materials: this descriptive analytical study was done on 250 elderly people who were supported by imam khomeini committee in birjand. for data collection the comprehensive health questionnaire of the elderly was used. the questionnaire was f...

backgroung and objectives: the relationship between optimistic view in life and health variables has been confirmed in many studies. in the majority of researches, the relationship was studied in non-clinical populations. given the few researches in clinical groups, this study was carried out aiming at evaluating the correlation between the optimistic views and general health in a group of card...