background: with regard to novel plans in the health sector, including “health sector evolution” and changes of hospitals’ issues, change and innovation skills are considered essential for hospital administrators. this study aimed to determine the relationship between management style and change and innovation skills of administrators in teaching hospitals of shiraz university of medical scienc...

background: the phenomenonof air pollution is a major environmental problemwhich threatens people’s health. urbanization and industrialactivities increaseair pollution, which cause cardiopulmonary diseases. the aim ofthis study was to investigate the correlation ofshiraz air pollutants with the referring patients due to the cardiopulmonarydisease in shiraz educational hospitals. methods: this i...

INTRODUCTION Organization structure and manpower constitute two basic components of anorganization and both are necessary for stablishing an organization. The aim of this survey was to investigate the type of the organization structure (mechanic and organic) from viewpoint of senior and junior managers in Shiraz teaching hospitals and creativity in each of these two structures. METHODS In thi...

1Department of Community Medicine, Sari Medical School, Sari, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to N. Motamed: [email protected]). 2Department of Biostatistics, Shiraz School of Public Health, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. 3Department of Community Medicine, Shiraz Medical School, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 24/03/03; accepted: 18/02/04 ABSTRACT To assess the validity...

Zoonoses Research Center, *Research Center for Social Determinants of Health, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Student Research Committee, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Mohamed Amin Ghobadifar, Farideh Pourghashdar*, Armin Akbarzadeh, and Zahra Mosal...

Correspondence: F Sharif Professor of Nursing, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Tel/Fax: +98-7116474254 Email:[email protected] Background: The myocardial infarction is the interruption of blood circulation heart that causes its cells to die. This deprives the heart muscle of blood and oxygen, and causes chest pain and pressure sensation. Hypertension and other risk factors...

BACKGROUND Classical screening methods are incapable to properly detect LTBI (Latent TB Infection) and HCWs (Healthcare Workers) are at the high risk of exposure. Only few reports estimated the prevalence of LTBI among Iranian HCWs and they mostly used the TST (Tuberculin Skin Test), rather than assessing the response against TB-specific antigens. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to determi...

BACKGROUND Cancer has important social consequences with cancer registration as the basis of moving towards prevention. The present study aimed to estimate the completeness of registration of the ten most common cancers in patients referred to selected hospitals in Shiraz, Iran by using capture-recapture method. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional analytical study was performed in 2014...