background: in this regard, in iran a plan was developed and accordingly 52 indicators to measure equity inhealth were developed and announced by the ministry of health in collaboration with other sectors.this study aims to obtain a deeper understanding of the development of health equity indicators andidentify their implementation challenges and proposed solutions from the perspective of polic...

many of the societal level factors that affect health – the ‘social determinants of health (sdh)’ – exist outside the health sector, across diverse portfolios of government, and other major institutions including non-governmental organisations (ngos) and the private sector. this has created growing interest in how to create and implement public policies which will drive better and fairer health...

a. Prosecution Counsel (Mr. W-Kapaya) conducted the examination-in-chief of witness CGB (PW13). He produced the exhibits shown at paragraph 4a and 4b. b. Defence Counsel (Mr. Besnier) cross-examined witness CGB (PW13). He produced the exhibit shown at paragraph 4c and 4d. c. Prosecution Counsel (Mr. W. Kapaya) re-examined witness CGB (PW13). d. Prosecution Counsel (Mr. W. Kapaya) requested from...

Quebec has a distinctive character among the Canadian provinces not only because of its majority French-speaking population, its culture, its social democratic values, and its institutions, but also because of the flamboyant style of its public policies and legislation. The article by Bernier in the last issue of the Journal stresses this distinctive character as applied to public health and he...

this article strive to examine and explaine national sources of the foreign policy of the islamic republic of iran. cultural, historical, geographic, ideological, social, and economic variables, as societal sources, will lead to the continuation of some behaviours in iran’s foreign policy. the author argues that to better understand iran’s foreign policy, one must pay attention to the above var...

This paper discusses methods for reconstructing theories underlying programs and policies. It describes three approaches. One is empirical–analytical in nature and focuses on interviews, documents and argumentational analysis. The second has strategic assessment, group dynamics, and dialogue as its core. The third has cognitive and organizational psychology as its foundation. For each of the th...

this paper seeks to explore the status of municipalities in the implementation of local social policy based on the existing legal framework though analyzing all legislations and regulations pertaining to municipalities (specially tehran municipality). the paper uses both quantitative and qualitative content analysis and applies thematic analysis. research findings indicate that most of tasks an...

School is a small institution located in central New York. The school sits in the center of a small, rural town and is home to grades seven through twelve. Throughout the six grade levels, the school has roughly 600 students. The district's elementary school is within walking distance of its high School is a small institution located in central New York. Although generally minimal behavior prob...

Background: Estimates of excess risk of valvular heart disease among prior users of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine have varied widely. Two major forms of bias appear to contribute to this variability and also result in a systematic under-estimation of risk. The first, a form of nondifferential misclassification, is the result of including background, prevalent cases among both exposed and une...