conclusions the significant improvement in the experimental group’s mean knowledge, hbm structures , and behavior scores indicates the positive effect of the intervention. background using various models of behavior change, a number of studies in the area of nutrition education have confirmed that nutrition habits and behaviors can be improved. objectives this study sought to determine the effe...

BACKGROUND To investigate the impact of the gap between subjective and objective social status on health-related quality of life. METHODS We analyzed data from 12,350 participants aged ≥ 18 years in the Korean Health Panel Survey. Health-related quality of life was measured by EuroQol-Visual analogue scale. Objective (income and education) and subjective social class (measured by MacArthur sc...

background: in the history there are long backgrounds to coexistence of human and domesticated animal. counter effect of more than 150 common diseases threat the human and domesticated health. due to climate condition of mazandaran, in the north of iran, the objective of the present study is to evaluate health conditions of the industrial animal husbandries (iah) during 2000-2001 . methods: thi...

ôbjective: to examine the relationship between psychological well-being and social solidarity of apartment residents in shahrekord, ïran. methods: â sample of 200 apartment dwellers was selected randomly. fessler social solidarity ïnventory and general health questionnaire were used to gather data. results: üsing partial correlation test and having controlled the effect of age, sex and educatio...

BACKGROUND Adolescents' problem behavior is considered as a syndrome and has been recognized in academic literature for a long time. Problem behavior consists of adolescents' harmful health habits and elements of psychological well-being. The frequent appearance of harmful health habits during adolescence might lead to problem behavior. Thus, problem behavior includes and describes the co-occur...

the purpose of the present study was to compare the mental health status of fathers and mothers (n = 191; 59.6% mothers) of children with educable mental disabilities on various dimensions including, depression, anxiety, physical complains, and social functioning. the sampling method was multilayer, cluster sampling from special education schools in mashhad. the general health questionnaire (gh...

Socioeconomic status and its impact on health are in the mainstream of public health thinking. This text discusses two paradigms utilized in assessing socioeconomic status in epidemiologic studies. One paradigm refers to prestige-based measurements and positive differentiation among social strata. This paradigm is characterized by classifications assessing social capital and the access to goods...

health equity is considered as one of the main objectives of health care systems. this study was carried out with the aim of determining health equity indicators in iran. through consideration of these indicators, differences in health status of different social groups and different geographical areas can be shown in different periods and based on that, effective interventions can be designed. ...

BACKGROUND Extremely high rates of mortality and morbidity have been reported among people with intellectual disabilities. Virtually no research has addressed the potential social determinants of health status within this very vulnerable population. METHOD Cross-sectional survey of self-reported health status and indicators of socioeconomic disadvantage and social connectedness in 1273 Englis...