Nahid Jafari

Health Management Network Center, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Iran

[ 1 ] - Drug Literacy in Iran: the Experience of Using “The Single Item Health Literacy Screening (SILS) Tool”

Drug and health literacy is a key determinant of health outcomes. There are several tools to assess drug and health literacy. The objective of this article is to determine drug literacy level and its relationships with other factors using a single screening tool. A cross- sectional survey was conducted among 1104 people in Qazvin province, Iran. Based on the proportional-to-size method, partici...

[ 2 ] - Drug Literacy in Iran: the Experience of Using “The Single Item Health Literacy Screening (SILS) Tool”

Drug and health literacy is a key determinant of health outcomes. There are several tools to assess drug and health literacy. The objective of this article is to determine drug literacy level and its relationships with other factors using a single screening tool. A cross- sectional survey was conducted among 1104 people in Qazvin province, Iran. Based on the proportional-to-size method, partici...

[ 4 ] - میزان و الگوی مرگ‌و‌میر ناشی از آلودگی‌های زیست محیطی حاصل از جنگ عراق و کویت در جمعیت ساکن استان‌های جنوبی زاگرس و مقایسه آن با ساکنین استان‌های شمالی زاگرس

  مقدمه: جنگ سال 1369 خلیج فارس با حمله عراق به کویت و اشغال نظامی این کشور آغاز شد. ب ه دنبال آن 34 کشور جهان با مجوز شورای امنیت سازمان ملل متحد در دی ماه سال 1369 به نیروهای عراقی مستقر در کویت یورش برده و ارتش عراق را مجبور به عقب‌نشینی کردند. نیروهای عراقی در جریان این عقب‌نشینی اقدام به آتش زدن چاه‌های نفت کویت نمودند و بیش از 600 حلقه چاه نفت به آتش کشیده شد. این جنگ علاوه بر تبعات دیگری...

[ 5 ] - بررسی ارتباط روشهای رایج پیشگیری از بارداری با سرطان مهاجم سرویکس

Background and Aim: Invasive cervical carcinoma is one of the most common malignancies in women. The risk factors are old age, low socioeconomic status, multiparity, first intercourse in low age, multipartner, history of infection and sexual transmitted disease (STD), smoking, long term use of oral contraceptive (OCP), malnutrition, and so on. There has been a possible relationship between inva...