HEALTH EDUCATION SOURCE MATERIAL AND CRITERION BY WHICH IT CAN BE JUDGED

The meaning of "socialization of health" to Iranian policymakers and how it can be implemented

Complex nature of health and disease, the impact of various socioeconomic factors on the health system arrangements and health of the society, and also the impact of health on the social and economic conditions of the society require a social approach to health. This necessity has led to the creation of new policies and programs, under the name of socialization of health, to strengthen the soci...

Education in musculoskeletal health--how can it be improved to meet growing needs?

Harris's lopsidependency criterion can be stronger than Shearer's criterion

The Lopsided Lovász Local Lemma (LLLL) is a probabilistic tool which is a cornerstone of the probabilistic method of combinatorics, which shows that it is possible to avoid a collection of “bad” events as long as their probabilities and interdependencies are sufficiently small. The strongest possible criterion that can be stated in these terms is due to Shearer (1985), although it is technicall...

It can be smart to be dumb

An important problem in game theory is why bounded rationality occurs, e.g., why altruism to non-kin occurs. Previous explanations involved computational limitations of the players, repeated play among the players etc. As an alternative, we introduce a pre-play step in which each player i chooses a “persona”, i.e., a ficticious utility function she commits to use in the game. By adopting differ...

Does Diarrhoea Causes Cataract? Can Cataract be Prevented by Aspirin?

Loss of transparency of the lens is termed cataract which is one of the commonest causes of blindness throughout the world. This major health problem appears to be much commoner in many developing countries such as India and Pakistan, where it causes visual disability at a substantially earlier age and several hypotheses have been put forward to explain this higher prevalence in these areas. Re...