background: this study aimed to calculate the child labor rate and establish the factors affecting this phenomenon in the less developed provinces of iran. methods: this study has used the secondary data of population and housing census gathered by iranian statistical center in 2011. the data belonged to 14859 children between 10 and 14 of 9 less developed provinces of iran. a multiple regressi...

The problem of providing unsafe medical care in health care systems now is a widespread issue throughout the world. It can cause many side effects such as high rate of morbidity and mortality and can affect hospital efficiency in a bad way (1, 2). In this regard, governments in both developed and developing countries try to reach an acceptable level of safety in hospitals (3,4) In 2007, the WHO...

BACKGROUND: While innovations in medicine, science and technology have resulted in improved health and quality of life for many people, the benefits of modern medicine continue to elude millions of people in many parts of the world. To assess the potential of genomics to address health needs in EMR, the World Health Organization's Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office and the University of Toro...

Abstract Background Annually, the World Health Organization (WHO), for Animal Health, and Food Agriculture of United Nations jointly administer Tripartite Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) country self-assessment survey (TrACSS), which asks participating countries to evaluate themselves on their progress in implementing policies prevent control AMR. Question 8.1 whether there is a functional natio...

Ethical and regulatory oversight of research may be suboptimal in lowand middle-income countries. To determine patients’ attitudes and perceptions toward research participation and perceptions of their rights, we recruited 202 participants from hospitals in Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Sudan and asked them to complete a questionnaire assessing attitudes and perceptions. Around 20% believed ...

“The situation has reached a critical point. The number of people with acute watery diarrhoea/cholera in countries in the Region in 2017 alone is higher than the number of people affected worldwide in 2016. Infectious diseases know no borders, and can quickly spread if they are not effectively contained. As the numbers of cases grow day by day, it is imperative that we exert all efforts to make...

Substance use is a public health problem worldwide. According to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates, there has been an increase of more than 10% over recent years in cannabis use in 9 countries in the Region; while the prevalence of opiate use in Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan is among the highest in the world. The estimated prevalence for drug de...

Four non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and diabetes were announced by World Health Organization (WHO) as the major causes of mortality in the world in 2008(Alwan, 2008). According to WHO prediction, in the next 10 years, mortality rate caused by NCDs will increase by 17 percent with the highest mortality rate in the reg...