introduction: health services currently support physical and mental health of individuals and are a prerequisite for sustainable development in every community. however, such benefits cannot be gained unless balanced distribution of health and treatment facilities and equipments among various geographical regions is ensured. this study assessed the status of development and rankings of iranian ...

In 1996, four provinces of Iran experienced below replacement level fertility. Since the early 1980s, these provinces have recorded lower fertility than the national level. How and under what condition has fertility declined to such a low level in these provinces? It may be of considerable interest to examine whether these provinces can be regarded as the leaders of the fertility transition in ...

during 2009–10, cheese samples were collected from shops and cheese factories in fars and khuzestan provinces. isolates were recovered from cheese using malt extract agar (mea) and potato dextrose agar (pda). teleomorphic characteristics such as morphology of ascocarps, asci, ascospores and anamorphic characteristics such as conidiophores, phialides, conidia and chlamydospores were investigated...

BACKGROUND Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus emerged in North America in April 2009 and spread globally. We describe the epidemiology and public health response to the first known outbreak of 2009 H1N1 in a train, which occurred in June 2009 in China. METHODS After 2 provinces provided initial reports of 2009 H1N1 infection in 2 persons who had travelled on the same train, we conducted a retr...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, 35195-363, Iran Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract In this paper, we give an upper bound for the Sugeno fuzzy integral of log-convex functions using the classical Hadamard integral inequality. We pr...

A descent family of Dai–Liao conjugate gradient methods Saman Babaie-Kafaki & Reza Ghanbari a Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences, Semnan University, P.O. Box 35195-363, Semnan, Iran b School of Mathematics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), P.O. Box 19395-5746, Tehran, Iran c Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Ferdowsi Universi...

BACKGROUND Nowadays, patient safety issue is among one of the main concerns of the hospital policy worldwide. This study aimed to evaluate the patient safety status in hospitals affiliated to Semnan city, using the WHO model for Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiatives (PSFHI) in summer 2014. METHODS That was a cross sectional descriptive study that addressed patient safety , which explai...

introduction: the aim of the present study is to show regional disparities in iran through measurement of the level of development of different provinces with respect to their accessibility to the health and medicare facilities. methods: to accomplish the above mentioned purpose, data regarding 18 health and medicare indexes for the years 2006-2008, have been collected. the quantified methods s...

Over the past few years, the syndrome of streptococcosis has been associated with outbreaks in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss, Walbaum) and caused significant economic losses in the aquaculture industry in Iran. The main purpose of this work was molecular identification of some causative agents of streptococcosis in rainbow trout. A total of 520 samples were collected from the head kidney o...