the role of education in improving quality of life of patients with chronic renal failure has been emphasized by many studies. this survey was performed to assess the effect of a confined program of home-care on the health status of patients who were receiving hemodialysis. in this research, 37 patients afflicted by chronic renal insufficiency were chosen and put into two categories randomly, 1...

pierre-gerlier forest has put forward the case that we are on the brink of a revolution in health policy that will be the result of the interplay of five factors. i would not challenge any of them but would emphasize the need to address socio-economic health inequalities, which have the potential to become a major cost driver in a time of growing economic inequality. to dr. forest’s list, i wou...

background: inequality in households’ and individuals' consumption expenditures is one of the most important aspects of health status difference among households and individuals. objectives: we investigated the impact of some macro-economic factors specially inequality factors on the iranian rural health status since 1986 through 2012. patients and methods: we conducted a longitudinal ecologica...

background: an obvious gradient in health outcomes has been implicated in many evidences relating to social and economic factors. proper data are requested to convince policy-makers calling for intersectoral action for health. recently, i.r. of iran has come up with 52 health equity indicators to monitor health equity through the country. conducting regular surveys on 14 out of 52 national heal...

background: attention to worker's health and safety is one of the priorities in health and medical delivery system of iran. this study was to assess health, medical and safety activities in hamadan province industries having more than 50 workers in 1997 . methods: the study group was made up of 3377 workers. for collecting data a questionnaire was provided and sent to the subject industries. he...

background: prevalence of sexual dysfunction varies from 20% to 40% in men and women in different studies in iran. despite its high prevalence, it seems that this issue has been neglected, particularly in islamic countries. the aim of this study was to assess sexual health in iran. this was a mixed method study.   methods: data were collected through evaluating country's sexual health programs ...

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results almost half of the veterans did not demonstrate any psychopathology and half of them were diagnosed with borderline or serious psychopathology. veterans receiving disability pension had more mental problems in comparison with the employed veterans. veterans receiving disability pension had higher scores in psychosomatic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety, phob...

background despite high immunization rates, hundreds of thousands of poor and underserved children continue to lack their necessary immunizations and are at risk of acquiring a vaccine-preventable disease. local health departments (lhds) and public health clinicians figure prominently in efforts to address this problem.   methods this exploratory research compared ten (10) north carolina lhds w...

background: breast milk is important for the overall well-being of infants. although lactation is relatively robust in the face of poor nutrition, the implication of poor nutrition on non-nutritive factors in breast milk is inconclusive. objective: this study was designed to find associations between nutritional and immune factors in maternal blood and breast milk with the aim to improve the ne...