Iran

pricing unemployment insurance : the case of iran

employees always concern about losing their job , or in other word , losing their income resources. for this purpose, every government requires strong system for covering these concerns. the unemployment insurance (ui) program’s can be used for achieving this goal. in this thesis, we price ui based on the insurance history of employee and the duration of being unemployed. we use the weibull dis...

Pollinosis in Iran.

Nursing Challenges in Iran

In a recent issue of the journal, you published an article about enhancing nursing students’ transition to workplace. The author mentioned that during transition, nurses frequently encounter role conflict, marginalization and burnout. These problems may lead to job dissatisfaction, intention to leave their job and also may interfere with quality of care they provide (1). In another article in t...

Forensic Psychiatry in Iran

In Iran, department of forensic psychiatry is one of the special units of Legal Medicine Organization concerned with individuals who demonstrate psychological and psychiatric problems. The duties of forensic psychiatrists in the department are, performing psychiatric examinations and determining mental competence of two major groups of referrals: Individuals who are involved in a legal problem ...

Sporotrichosis in Iran.

This report describes a 23 year-old male florist gardener diagnosed with subcutaneous sporotrichosis caused by the dimorphic pathogenic soil fungus Sporothrix schenckii. The patient had several small skin lesions over the left upper arm with ascendant chains of enlarged lymph nodes.Sporothrix schenckii was detected from clinical samples by direct microscopy and culture and its ability to switch...