BACKGROUND Depressive disorder is globally estimated to be as many as one in five visits to primary health care. Approximately more than 50% of depressed women in primary care are not diagnosed. As a part of a major investigation into perceptions of women's depression, this study explored how female patients and their relatives conceptualize patients' conditions in three ethnic groups in Iran (...

I first observed the confident, sad, yet hopeful face of Nabat Fayiaq Rahman through black screen TV. She was wearing a traditional, completely Kurdish outfit that matched stage curtains designed for anniversary Anfal genocide, marked on April 14th each year. The genocide in Iraq perpetrated by Saddam Hussein’s regime 1980s. Human Rights Watch (1994) estimates as many 182,000 Kurds were buried ...

Emergency rule provides opportunities for aspiring autocrats to subvert democratic institutions while still following constitutional rules. There has been a steady rise in the use of emergency this purpose recent years, leading many scholars speak “permanent” rule. Existing explanations permanent focus on national-level factors, completely neglecting role local political dynamics. Our goal is t...

conclusions the findings point to a relationship between neighborhood characteristics and obesity only in the azeri turks. however, educational level was more important than neighborhood quality in predicting the risk of obesity results three common neighborhood environments were identified: 1) modern-affluent, 2) central-high access and 3) marginal. these three factors explained 73.2% of the t...