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results almost half of the veterans did not demonstrate any psychopathology and half of them were diagnosed with borderline or serious psychopathology. veterans receiving disability pension had more mental problems in comparison with the employed veterans. veterans receiving disability pension had higher scores in psychosomatic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety, phob...

background despite high immunization rates, hundreds of thousands of poor and underserved children continue to lack their necessary immunizations and are at risk of acquiring a vaccine-preventable disease. local health departments (lhds) and public health clinicians figure prominently in efforts to address this problem.   methods this exploratory research compared ten (10) north carolina lhds w...

background: divorce, especially in women, could be assessed from socio-cultural perspective as well as psychological viewpoint. this assessment requires cultural adopted as well as valid and reliable questionnaire. this study aimed to develop and assess the psychometric properties of a questionnaire in order to address social consequences in iranian divorced women. methods: this was an explorat...

BACKGROUND Social support is an important factor in the adaptation process of immigrants, helping for their integration in a new environment. The lack of social support may influence on well-being and health status. The aim of this study is to describe the social support of immigrant and native population and study the possible association between immigration and lack social support after adjus...

Background: Health is an essential component of human rights and the rights are interdependent, indivisible, and correlated. The present study aimed at codifying a multidimensional health index according to multistage index development and describing the status of this index in 22 municipal districts of Tehran.   Methods: This study was conducted using the data collected in the second r...