background : this study was to investigate the health literacy and influencing factors of older population in pension institution of xinjiang, china. methods : elderly people were selected from 44 pension institutions in urumqi, changji, karamay and shihezi and from september 2011 to june 2012 using random layer sampling method. the investigation was carried out by chi-nese citizen health liter...

Hub networks have always been acriticalissue in locating health facilities. Recently, a study has been investigated by Cocking et al. (2006)in Nouna health district in Burkina Faso, Africa, with a population of approximately 275,000 people living in 290 villages served by 23 health facilities. The travel times of the population to health services become extremely high during the rainy season, s...

introduction: the success of a health system depends on the accessibility and the quality of health services it provides. one major indicator of service quality is peoples satisfaction from the service. in this article, healthcare availability and satisfaction of people in 17th zone of tehran is investigated. methods: population research center has performed a survey in 17th zone of tehran to i...

more often patients refer for genetic counseling, without definite diagnosis. mostly people and some doctor! have the impression the all muscular dystrophy affected by boys but is carried by girles. more often review of medical history of theses patients resolved this finding different clinical (neurologists), physiotherapist (ncv,emg) and pathologists diagnosis and also negative result molecul...

due to the adverse effects of obesity and overweight on health status of people, organizations that provide daily food aim for a healthy body mass index among their staff. the purpose of this applied randomized controlled trial (rct) was to study the effect of modifications in the food service section and nutritional intervention on the bmi of staff in an industrial center. in this applied rand...

To meet the needs of and facilitate worldwide earth science research, some developed countries and international organizations have been developing analysis and application systems for the management of earth science data since the 1950s. The International Association of Science and Technology set up the World Data Center (WDC) in 1957 to standardize and internationalize the registration, stora...

abstract introduction: peptic ulcer is a common problem in medicine with serious impacts on the quality of life of patients. it has been shown that helicobacter pylori infection is related with inflammatory responses of gastric mucosa. however, some patients remain asymptomatic. sustained colonization and chronic inflammation increase the risk of gastritis and peptic ulcer. the aim of this stud...