background to date, no study has addressed the association between race/ethnicity and obesity considering other sociodemographic and lifestyle factors in iran. objectives the current study aimed to study lifestyle and the environmental factors affecting obesity in the iranian subjects of the steps survey, 2011. patients and methods the study was conducted on 8639 subjects (aged ≥ 20 years) in t...

Any industry has its own supply chain where it is not necessary to have all stages in the supply chain and the optimal o rdering policies of those indiv idual stages may be different. This paper p resents an extension of two–level supply chain inventory model d iscussed in related works. The main consideration of this paper is to determine the optimal ordering policy according to inventory and ...

one of the increasingly important organizational considerations involves occupational health and staff safety. hence, it is crucial for the managers to identify the key organizational factors contributing to reduce work-related accidents. this study was conducted on 340 workers, employees, experts, supervisors, directors, and managers. the data evaluation involved a questionnaire while the anal...

low back pain (lbp) is likely the most common medical disorder among work population. in this survey, prevalence of lbp and pain severity and the association of them with occupational and non-occupational risk factors were specified among office workers in baqiyatallah university of medical sciences, tehran, iran in 2006 in this way the point prevalence of lbp and pain severity among office wor...

background and objectives: having spiritual health is an effective factor in recovery of cancer patients. therefore, due to the importance of spiritual health in outcome of cancer patients, this study aimed at assessing spiritual health and its related factors in cancer patients. methods: this descriptive-correlational study was carried out on 150 cancer patients who were at least 18 years old ...

Background: In spite of the increased range of inactivity and obesity among Iranian adults, insufficient research has been done on environmental factors influencing physical activity. As a result adapting a subjective (self-report) measurement tool for assessment of physical environment in Iran is critical. Accordingly, in this study Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale (NEWS) was adapted...

implementing infrastructures of e-marketing has been considered in this study. they are classified into external (related to government) and internal (related to enterprise) categories based on the factors’ level and are classified into strategic and operational categories based on the factors’ nature. 35 factors have been finalized as the basis of the questionnaire. the importance and position...