Introduction / objectives Nosocomial infections are one of the most important health problems particularly in developing countries, because these infections cause high mortality and morbidity and have many economic loss consequences. To date however most surveillance studies have been conducted in most of developed countries, only a very few have been accomplished in Iran. The aim of this study...

achieving the millennium development goals has proven to be a real challenge. providing evidence on cost-effective interventions did not prove to be sufficient to secure the trust of national authorities, health care providers and patients. introducing change in a health system requires a good understanding of the relationships between the actors of the system. social network analysis can provi...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to explore the technical efficiency (TE) of the Iranian rural primary healthcare (PHC) system for diabetes treatment coverage rate using the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) as well as to examine the strength and significance of the effect of human resources density on diabetes treatment. METHODS In the SFA model diabetes treatment coverage rate, as a output, is a fun...

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a global inclusive indicator framework for improving the population’s health, adapted to each country’s socio-political context. This study aimed propose national Iran as reference list toward SDGs realisation in health and health-related. three additional complementary frameworks (WHO Core Health Indicators, Action on Social Dete...

background and pupose: after two decades of expansion of universities of medical sciences and increasing the number of medical sciences students as one of the most attainable solutions for the problem of substandard status of iranian community health, recently, quality-based policies in medical education have taken priority over most of the national health plans. we conducted this study to dete...

LAHORE: Pakistan Association of Medical Editors (PAME) organized its Second National Conference at University of Health Sciences Lahore from April 26th to 27th 2014 which attracted over three hundred fifty delegates and participants including two invited guest speakers from Iran i.e. Prof. M.B. Rokni Editor Iranian Journal of Public Health and Iranian Journal of Parasitology from Tehran Univers...

the islamic republic of iran, in her 20 year vision by the year 2025, is a developed country with the first economic, scientific and technological status in the region, with revolutionary and islamic identity, inspiring islamic world, as well as effective and constructive interaction in international relations. enjoying health, welfare, food security, social security, equal opportunities, fair ...