nowadays, air pollution in cities with regard to its harmful outcomes has been turned into one of the serious challenges in urban management. pollutants as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and the aerosols that are known to be among the most important factors related to heart, vascular, and lung disease, have underlined public welfare and health, and the organizations concerned with community h...

EVIDENCE UTILIZATION IN HEALTH POLICY MAKING BASED ON THE THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR Mohammad Hasan Imani Nasab, Bahareh Yazdizadeh, Masoud Salehi, Hesam Seyedin, Reza Majdzadeh. Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran; Knowledge Utilization Research Center, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, ...

1Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Environment and Energy, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 2Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Environment and Energy, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran 3Department of Management, University of Tehran, Iran 4Department of Environmental Science, Faculty...

the goal of this article is mapping urban management science. the main question of the research is “what are the subject areas of urban management science and how is the relation between these subject areas?” the map of urban management science can help to recognize urban management and its subject areas and can help policy makers to get familiar with the priorities in this subject area. for th...

1Heath Information Management Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, IR Iran 2Department of Librarianship and Medical Information Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Department of Librarianship and Medical Information Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Cent...

iran has mountainous landscapes and half of its surface is occupied by highlands. moreover, iran is an arid country and deserts are located at lower altitudes. most metropolitan areas are positioned in mid-altitudes between mountain and desert. cities grow upwardly toward the highlands under pressures of urbanization and desertification. foothill ecotones are a zone between upland mountains and...