Abstract Background & Aims: Toxocariasis or visceral larva migrans syndrome is a disease that appears by attack of extra intestinal animal nematode larvae of Toxocara canis to the human tissues. The present study was performed to evaluate the frequency of Toxocara eggs in public parks of Shiraz /Iran. Methods: A total of 20 parks from different regions of shiraz city were selected, and from dif...

Toxocariasis is a parasitic zoonose caused by the infection of larval nematode Toxocara species. A total of 285 soil samples from January to March 2009 in 18 public parks were collected to test for soil contamination with Toxocara eggs. Soil samples were investigated for the present of Toxocara eggs using sucrose flotation method. Distribution of Toxocara spp. eggs in samples collected from pub...

iranian women who, in the traditional conditions of the past and norms of the iranian society, have had a limited access to the public spaces of the city, with the changes taken place in our modern day society and factors such as education, employment and so on. nowadays, they have distinguished themselves in various fields and introduced their own issues and concerns to the society. however, i...

The improper layout of urban public parks leads to the difference between citizens sharing or not sharing this kind of public resource, particularly in the historical districts of mountainous cities in China. The purpose of this study is to explore the spatial equity and quantitative measures of urban public parks’ layouts by building a demand index of socially vulnerable groups sharing public ...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the shared interest of the public health and parks and recreation sectors in promoting active visits to parks. At the institutional level, both sectors have missions to promote physical activity and view parks as key components in attaining physical activity goals. While some balancing among park goals may be necessary to avoid overuse and resource degrad...

background: the objective of the present research was to determine the frequency of toxocara spp. eggs in soil samples of public parks, in the city of tehran, iran. methods: a total of 600 soil samples were taken from 120 parks between aprils to november, 2008. soil samples were collected from 5 distinct sites in the parks. the samples were washed with saline solution and the collected sediment...

the main purpose of this paper is to study urban management performance in public green spaces (parks) based on economical indexes, social indexes and environmental indexes. for this purposes, we use topsis method that is one of the methods of multiple criteria decision making. the data was obtained through interview and also a questionnaire which was distributed among about 1000 families of ma...