background and objectives: mental health is one of the most important components of healthy life. culture, particularly religious orientation, is one of the factors whose role in promoting mental health is increasingly being emphasized. the aim of this study was to investigate correlation between religious orientation and mental health among the staff of pars special economic energy zone (pseez...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the change in health status of China's adult population between the years of 2003 and 2008 due to rapid economic growth and medical system improvement. METHODS Data from the third and fourth Chinese national health services surveys covering 141,927 residents in 2003 and 136,371 residents in 2008 who were aged >18 years were analyzed. RESUL...

BACKGROUND Parametric distributions based on individual patient data can be used to represent both stochastic and parameter uncertainty. Although general guidance is available on how parameter uncertainty should be accounted for in probabilistic sensitivity analysis, there is no comprehensive guidance on reflecting parameter uncertainty in the (correlated) parameters of distributions used to re...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa introduction: the performance evaluation of healthcare system in macro-level is important. this paper evaluates performance of health service of asian countries in 2006. methods: in the first step, the initial data for performance evaluation has been collected from the site world health organization (who) and are weighted by analytical hierarchy pro...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND STUDIES: on the cost of injury are useful in setting research and policy priorities and it is valuable to observe differences in the economic burden of injuries across countries. OBJECTIVE To estimate the treated prevalence rate, economic burden and gender- and age-specific costs of injuries in Korea in 2006. DESIGN Annual direct healthcare costs associated with injuri...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the process of a job-specific workers' health surveillance (WHS) in improving occupational health care for construction workers. METHODS From January to July 2012 were 899 bricklayers and supervisors invited for the job-specific WHS at three locations of one occupational health service throughout the Netherlands. The intervention aimed at detecting signs of work-related...

Using a conceptual framework that borrow notions both from the economic theory of fertility and social interaction theory, this paper assesses the relative importance of social and economic modernization at individual and community level in explaining the geographical differential in desired fertility in Egypt. Using 2000 Egyptian Demographic Health Survey and an up-to-date map of land cover in...

Previous economic evaluations for health care have focused mainly on the clinical and pharmacological areas. This paper presents the implementation of a methodology for economic evaluation on technological research. The case of a new prosthetics design for partial foot amputee patients was used for analysis. The aim of this work was to calculate the cost of device manufacture and to separate it...