abstract this study aimed at identifying and prioritizing the barriers to participation of staff of public offices in kerman province in physical activities. the statistical population consisted of all staff of public offices of kerman province (n=23360 according to the annual statistics of offices in kerman province in 2012). the sample size was 378 subjects using krejcie and morgan (1970) tab...

background: the advent of new technologies with widespread dissemination of information has caused a fundamental change in information and educational resources. on the other hand, selection of an appropriate and valuable source of information in the field of health education is essential. therefore, this study was designed and implemented with the objective of comparing health center’s staff o...

aphid parasitoids (braconidae: aphidiinae) in several localities of kerman province, southeastern iran were studied between 2007 and 2008 and 20 species belonging to eight genera were identified. parasitoids were reared from 25 field-collected aphid species occurring on 31 host plant species. in the present study, 83 parasitoid-aphid-plant associations, their aphid hosts, and the respective hos...

background and purpose: health indices, regarding to their role in the development of society, are one of the most important indices at national level. success of national development programs is largely dependent on the establishment of appropriate goals at the health sector, among which access to healthcare facilities is an essential requirement. the aim of this study was to examine the dispa...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We read carefully the article by Zehedi et al., (1) which determined the prevalence of hepatitis B (HBV), C (HCV), and D (HDV) viruses as well as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in hemodialysis (HD) patients within Kerman province, located in southeast region of Ira...

Iran has performed Health Transformation Plan (HTP) from 2014 to obtain its defined goals. This study assesses and compares university non-university hospitals’ efficiency productivity in Kerman provinces, Iran. The data of 19 selected hospitals, two years before after Plan, was collected this cross-sectional study. These included the variables physician nurse number, active beds as inputs bed ...