abstract in this paper, we modeled the climate of iran for future periods. each period is a 30-years period centered on a year. the range of periods is from 2000 (i.e., 1986-2015) to 2100 (i.e., 2086-2115). this was made using 2 general circulation models (echam4 and hadcm2) and 18 ipcc scenarios. magicc-scengen was used as a tool for downscaling gcm low resolution output data. result of hadcm2...

human development index (hdi) is a composite indicator that can show the impact of economic strategies on human life standards. the index is calculated by three main factors of income, education and health. this research studies the status of hdi across the iranian provinces, its changes over time and the efficiency of provinces in using resources.the data for 2001 and 2009 was obtained from th...

b ackground: malaria is still one of the most important infectious diseases in the world. the disease also is a public health problem in south and southeast of iran. this study programmed to show the correlation between regular malaria microscopy training and refresher training courses and control of malaria in iran. m ethods: three types of training courses were conducted in this programme inc...

background: one of the most common cancers is skin cancer worldwide. since incidence and cost of treatment of the cancer are increasing, it is necessary to further investigate to prevent and control this disease. this study aimed to determine skin cancer trend and epidemiology in iran. methods: this study was done based on existing data. data used in this study were obtained from a national reg...

background: malaria is one of the most important parasitic diseases in iran. due to importantce of drug policy, monitoring of chloroquine therapeutic efficacy in uncomplicated falciparum cases was carried out in south and south-east of iran in 2003. materials and methods: this discriptive study was carried out in five centers of sistan-baluchestan, hormozgan and kerman provinces (south and sout...

asian citrus psyllid, diaphorina citri kuwayama, is an important pest of citrus that transmits the bacterial pathogens responsible for citrus greening disease, also called huanglongbing. the aim of the current study was to investigate the shape variations of the forewing among the iranian geographic populations of d. citri, as well as one population from pakistan. the adult psyllids used in thi...

one of the methods used in the analysis of data related to diseases, and their underlying reasons is drawing geographical map. mapping diseases is a valuable tool to determine the regions of high rate of infliction requiring therapeutic interventions. the objective of this study was to investigate obesity pattern in iran by drawing geographical maps based on bayesian spatial model to recognize ...

background: during the last decades, the number of dentistry units increased significantly across the country. the aim of this study was to assess the efficiency of dental units of iran provinces regarding dental health inputs and outputs using data envelopment analysis approach. methods: in this applied descriptive-analytical study, the study population included all of iran 31 provinces. the o...

medically and veterinary importance of ticks of the genus of hyalomma through transmission of related diseases is very obvious. the identification and taxonomy of species of this genus always have been controversial. sometimes accuracy of morphological diagnosis of two closely related species hyalomma anatolicum and hyalomma asiaticum which are reported in fauna of iran, is very difficult. the ...

prosopis cineraria (l.) druce (kahour in persian) is a native and indicative species of saharo-sindian region. prosopis forest in iran extends from the beach of persian gulf and oman sea in boushehr, hormozgan and sistan-baluchistan provinces to south of kerman province. in this research ecological conditions of prosopis such as floristic diversity, climate, soil and the biomass were studied. i...