Author details Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Health, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Parvin Etesami Street, P.O. Box: 451578-6349, Zanjan, Iran. Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 15875-6951, Tehran, Iran. Mental Health Research Group, Health Metrics Research Center, Institute for Healt...

Mehdi Jafari, Arash Rashidian, Farid Abolhasani, Kazem Mohammad, Shahram Yazdani, Patricia Parkerton, Masud Yunesian, Feizollah Akbari and Mohammad Arab* Department of Health Services Management, School of Health Services Management, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Te...

A. Karimi, F. Golbabaei, M. Neghab, M. R. Mehrnia, K. Mohammad, M. R. Pourmand, and A. Nikpey Occupational Health Department, Faculty of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Occupational Health Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Occupational Health Department, School of Public Health and Nutrition, Shiraz University of...

A total of 907 cases of leprosy from two sources, records from Baba-Baghi Leprosarium (709 cases) and Ahar case finding survey (198 cases), have been studied. The main characteristics of the cases are: a) about 50% of all cases are lepromatous leprosy; b) the leprosarium cases are about 2.5 years younger; c) about 70% of all cases are male; and d) the incidence of leprosy shows a steady increas...

Dehghani et al. well elucidated the role of urbanization and life style on epidemiology of multiple sclerosis (MS) dispersal in Iran based on the ecological research data. The authors have raised the issue of "Urbanization" and attributed the growing prevalence of MS to the environmental factors, the rising trend of migration to urban areas and changes of lifestyle (1). Currently, there are int...

1 Mycobacteriology Research Centre(MRC), National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NRITLD), WHO; UNION Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University (Medical Campus), Darabad, Tehran, Iran. 2 The Republican Research and Practical Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Minsk, Belarus. 3 Institute for Chemistry of New Materials, Belarus National ...