BACKGROUND Recognizing mortality pattern and observing its trend will help us in determining health priorities, allocating health resources and priorities in health section, eliminating main factors of premature deaths and carrying out epidemiological research. OBJECTIVE The aim of this research was to determine avoidable mortality in Kerman province. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present study...

Strategic Planning of Agricultural Entrepreneurship Development in Kerman Province (Application Fuzzy Hierarchical Analysis and SWOT)

BACKGROUND Smoking is one of the major modifiable risk factors for non-communicable diseases. Our aim was to report the pattern of active and passive smoking using the data collected through a population-base household survey in Kerman, Iran [(KERCADRS) Kerman Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors Study]. METHODS Using a cluster random sampling design, we recruited 5900 adult persons (15-75 ye...

background: knowledge of existing situation in each region plays great role in order to prevent oral and dental diseases in people. meanwhile, dmft index is one of the best epidemiological indices in dentistry representing oral hygiene situation in society. so, this study was conducted in order to evaluate dmft index in 12- years-old students of zarand city at 2011. methods: this descriptive st...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous leishmaniasis constitutes a major public health problem in many parts of the world including Iran. The primary objective of this study was to identify Leishmania species in endemic districts of Kerman Province, south-eastern Iran. METHODS This study was conducted by random sampling as cross- sectional descriptive between 2008 and 2010. Overall, 203 skin scraping smears we...

Background: Knowledge of existing situation in each region plays great role in order to prevent oral and dental diseases in people. Meanwhile, DMFT index is one of the best epidemiological indices in dentistry representing oral hygiene situation in society. So, this study was conducted in order to evaluate DMFT index in 12- years-old students of Zarand City at 2011. Methods: This descriptive st...

The objective of this research was to determine the best model and compare performances in terms of producing landuse maps from six supervised classification algorithms. As a result, different algorithms such as the minimum distance ofmean (MDM), Mahalanobis distance (MD), maximum likelihood (ML), artificial neural network (ANN), spectral anglemapper (SAM), and support vector machine (SVM) were...

Thickener is a main and fundamental step in modern mining separation processes. In this research, the effectof flocculant consumption rate and feed solid concentration of settling rate of layers was studied with differentconcentrations in iron ore mine of Jalalabad, Zarand, Kerman, Iran. The experiments were performed in two1000 ml graduated cylinders (61 and 62 mm diagonal an...

Determination of Rn- 222 concentration and annual effective dose inhalation in the vicinity hot springs Kerman province, southeastern Iran