Background After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster (GEJED) and Joso City Flood (JCF), a number of people were relocated to evacuation centers. In situations following a large-scale disaster, acupuncture can be applied for various health problems in evacuation centers. In this study, we report the medical support operation for evacuees with acupuncture and massage therapy (AP/...

the relationship between public health and urban planning is an innovative and important issue that it has prominent position in future urban planning. in this context, adverse air quality condition and air pollutant concentrations higher than the permitted limit set by the world health organization is considered as a threat to the health of citizens in big cities. according to result of air po...

1 Office of the Director, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. 2 Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. 3 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, and Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. 4 Department ...

this paper aims at studying governance and distribution of autonomies in tehran city islamic council in the process of performing intra/inter-organizational functions. according to current theories on governance, there are three types of governance according to the kinde of involvement. authority involvement, interactive involvement and persuasion involvement, in tehran city islamic council in ...

Objective: In this study, the numerical values that will guide planner and manager depending on accessibility, adequacy effective service areas of Niğde urban green (GA) have been obtained. 
 Material Methods: The usage GA City is examined as children's playground, park sports areas. data was obtained from ASTER, Landsat 7-ETM SPOT satellite images, Development Plan (2017) with a scale 1/1...

Carriage rates of Streptococcus pneumoniae and their antibiotic resistance, capsular types, and genetic patterns were studied among 264 children aged 12-35 months attending 8 day care centers located within a 2.5-mile radius in the same city. Nasopharyngeal cultures were obtained within a 2-month interval from all 264 children. Significant differences in each of the studied characteristics were...

Despite the fact that many governments try to set rules guarantee having resistant buildings, there are vulnerable structures in world. Hence, establishing earthquake relief centers is an important issue order control effect of earthquake. Iran a country middle east which severely against Yazd central city Iran. Since no such study for city, this considered study.  The parcels' layer GIS map ha...