Even though cohabitation has become more prevalent in the last few decades, the majority of the adult population is married, and marriage is associated with a number of factors, such as educational outcom and health. Understanding the marrie population is also an important part of understanding partnering behaviour and family formation and dissolution. The length of marriages and whether they a...

background: around one out of two mothers give births by cesarean section (cs) surgery in iran and about half of this number is due to previous cs. recently health sector evolution (hsep) program (started in april 2014) targets the high rate of cs in iran. to assess the impact of the interventions, we emphasized that the first birth cesarean (fbc) proportion is one of the main indicators to ass...

This article focuses on the estimation of population proportion when the study variable is sensitive in nature. Two implicit randomized response techniques are proposed where the unrelated trait can be chosen subjectively. In addition to unbiased estimation of population proportion and variance, an empirical study is conducted to inspect the relative efficiency facet of the proposed techniques....

anthropometry is the study of human body dimensions and proportions among different races. in work environments, poorly designed workstations and tools reduce productivity and can lead to fatigue and musculoskeletal injuries. this study aimed to determine the anthropometric characteristics of iranian workers in comparison to three other asian countries. this cross-sectional study evaluated 400 ...

background: intestinal parasitic infections (ipis) cause serious public health problem in the world, especially those located in tropical and subtropical areas. this study was conducted with the aim of obtaining frequency of intestinal parasites in referred people to the nahavand city laboratories, hamadan province, western iran. m aterials and methods: a comparative cross-sectional study was c...