background: foreign immigrants form the part of the population of each country. among the foreign immigrant population in iran, the share of immigrants and nationals from afghanistan is very noticeable. one of the factors that affect this people's physical and mental health is social support. this study aimed to investigate the status of social support and its effective factors on afghan immigr...

BACKGROUND Suicide prevention is one of the priorities in policies of Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME). The suicide prevention program had two main parts of identifying and treatment of the depressed and suicide high risk individuals by Primary Health Care (PHC) network. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the results of integration of the program into PHC network ...

New environmental pollutants interfere with the environment and human life along with technology development. One of these pollutants is electromagnetic field. This study determines the vertical microwave radiation pattern of different types of Base Transceiver Station (BTS) antennae in the Hashtgerd city as the capital of Savojbolagh County, Alborz Province of Iran. The basic data including th...

objective: the prevalence rate of suicide among rural population in karaj and savojbolagh district for a period of 5 years (1991-95) have been studied. method: the data collected through the questionnaires, filled by health workers settled in 44 health houses in savojbolagh, and 21 health houses in karaj city. the population of these two districts were nearly 76804, and 26577 individuals respec...

introduction tourism has recently been introduced and recognized as one of the strategies for rural development and poverty reduction especially in developing countries and been implemented and proved successful in some areas. these researchers contend that tourism has many advantages over other economic sectors, making it an effective tool for poverty alleviation. these advantages include: pro...

the purpose of the present report is to describe the development of mental health programme in savojbolagh district, 100 km in north west of tehran with the emphasis on the obstacles in expansion of mental health services in other parts of the world and in iran. data on case findings, the number of referrals to mental health centers and other statistics among the rural population of savojbolagh...