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...

aim: breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. this comparative study was designed to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practice of medical and non-medical female students concerning breast self-examination (bse) in two different universities in shiraz, iran. it also examined the relationship between the students' knowledge, attitude, practice and type of academic ed...

background and purpose: the characteristics of residents of infectious diseases who should practice and teach evidence based medicine (ebm) during their clinical work – and their attitudes toward it – are poorly known. we assessed the knowledge, attitude and practice of infectious diseases residents regarding evidence based medicine and their related educational needs. methods: this cross-secti...

introduction: health promoting lifestyle is one of the determinants of health. university years are important phase of life when one can develop health promoting lifestyle. given the high cost of healthcare there is need of shift from a treatment based approach to a preventive approach in which appropriate methods should be developed to promote health and productivity among youth. objective: th...

introduction: health tourism refers to any type of travelling seeking improvement of health condition. it can be treated like a national strategy toward increase of national income. the present study is an attempt to survey the factors in development of health tourism in iran. methods: the study is an analytical research and data used in the study were gleaned through library resources and acad...

introduction: the current research seeks to evaluate the framework of the mentioned endeavors through the survey of the quality of the web pages of iran's medical universities and the existence of their organizational metalinks. methods: in this descriptive study, 40 web pages of the iran's medical universities were studied. the existence of the web pages, the type of the library soft wares, th...

this study have done to assess knowledge 200 girls and boys from 20 schools in 18th districts in south of tehran about individual hygiene. for gathering data use a questionnaire by 30 questions about knowledge of health in different part of body. the results of study show most of subjects have relatively good knowledge about individual hygiene. but their knowledge in some areas is more than oth...

background injuries with sharps are common occupational hazards for healthcare workers. such injuries predispose the staff to dangerous infections such as hepatitis b, c and hiv. objectives the present study was conducted to investigate the behaviors of healthcare workers in kashan healthcare centers after needle sticks and injuries with sharps in 2012. materials and methods a cross-sectional s...

in this comment, i build on shiffman’s call for the global health community to more deeply investigate structural and productive power. i highlight two challenges we must grapple with as social scientists carrying out the types of investigation that shiffman proposes: the politics of  challenging the powerful; and the need to investigate types of expertise that have traditionally been thought o...