Background and Aims: Data for small-area studies in Italy are available at census tract and municipality level. The aim of the present contribution is to ascertain whether an ad hoc developed Deprivation Index (DI) can adjust for deprivation in SENTIERI, a multicentric small-area study at municipality level in Italian Polluted Sites – IPS. Methods: The DI adopted in SENTIERI is based on four so...

Received Dec 30, 2015 Revised Feb 23, 2016 Accepted May 13, 2016 This research aimed to study the influence of Leadership, Organizational Culture, Emotional Quotation, and Job Satisfaction to Teacher Performance of Senior High School at Palopo Municipality South Sulawesi. There were 78 teachers participated in this research. The results were: (1) Leadership directly affects teacher performance;...

BACKGROUND Young children in Sweden have good general health in comparison to children in other European countries. In contrast, teenagers display poorer mental health. Parental support is now being made available on a universal level in Sweden in order to promote youngsters general psychological health. The aim of this study was to examine (1) to what extent the parents were interested in vari...

BACKGROUND Pesticide use is widespread in agriculture. Several studies have shown that pesticides used in agricultural fields can contaminate the domestic environment and thus be an important source of pesticide exposure of populations residing nearby. Epidemiological studies that have examined the health effects of in utero pesticide exposure from residence near agricultural activities suggest...

in spite of the establishment of the administrative justice court as an especial forum for hearing the actions against the public and state  institutions including municipality, the cases against that municipality do  not follow a same way and depending on the roots of such liability, the procedures are different. in this paper by outlining the different actions against the municipality we trie...

nowadays, a movement has begun toward offering services by means of portals to realize the goal of making the electronic city, and iranian municipalities have already entered this scope. this investigation aims at measuring the realization of above-mentioned goal by investigating into municipality portals, since the typical view of an e-city and the user interface between management processes o...

trust, along with transparency, is an important indicator of a satisfactory relationship between a government and the public. considering transparency as the key to trust in government, the purpose of this paper is to postulate a link between transparency and trust taking into account satisfaction as a psychological factor. this paper tries to find the answer of these questions: “is there any s...

Original scientific paper Air quality monitoring stations are used for quick and reliable assessment of air quality. Although the stations are expensive, very often their number on certain territory exceeds optimal number of stations leading to their redundancy, increased costs, overlapping of data etc. To enable analysis of quantitative and qualitative criteria, authors propose an approach bas...

background hepatitis b virus (hbv) is likely to be more prevalent in certain populations and occupational groups, such as municipal solid waste workers (mswws). objectives the current study aimed to estimate the prevalence of hbv and its risk factors among mswws compared to other municipal employees not exposed to waste. patients and methods the current cross-sectional study included 654 munici...