contemporary iranian society is transiting from traditional outlook to modern attitudes. social chaos matched with behavioral and thinking chaos is characteristic of transition period. political structure, as a part of society, alongside the juridical, economic and social structure is transiting from traditional sovereignty to intellectual and legal one. political participation, as a tangible a...

introduction rural women, especially in the third world countries, have a major role in the economic, social and cultural activities. check the status of women in the developing countries 52 represents the fact that women over 40% of agricultural activities are doing with respect to the axis of the nature of the agricultural activities in the economic development of iran, and the role of rural ...

background: to investigate the association between socio-economic status and obesity in non-menopause women aged 15-49 years in tehran, iran. methods: this study was based on iran national health survey conducted in 1999. obesity is defined as a body mass in­dex over ≥30. constructed area (per-person), educational level and job are considered as factors indicating the socioeconomic status. the ...

Background: Infertility is one of the crises that can cause various mental problems such as depression that is stressful, but personal characteristics can influence the quality of response to infertility stress which is important to be recognized in depressed infertile women. In order to study the incidence of depression in infertile women and comparing individual and socio-economic characteris...

The aim of the paper was to describe general health, socio-economic and demographic characteristics of endometrial cancer patients in comparison to healthy women. During years 1996-2002, 100 women with endometrial carcinoma and 100 healthy women were interviewed about their health, socio-economic and demographic status and compared. The endometrial cancer patients were more often older, postmen...