OBJECTIVE To determine risky behaviors leading to unintentional injuries among Tehrani high school students in 2009. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out berween October and December 2009. Out of 237,300 (185151 governmental, 52149 non governmental) Tehrani high school students in both genders, 727 subjects were selected by multistage randomized sampling. Among 20 education dist...

OBJECTIVE This paper evaluates Avahan programme's coverage of female sex workers (FSWs), focus on high-risk FSWs and intermediate outcomes. METHODS First round of cross-sectional survey data, Integrated Behavioral and Biological Assessments (IBBA), conducted in 22 districts, were aggregated into district categories: Solo, where Avahan was the sole service provider covering all FSWs and Major ...

This paper studies the impact of parks as an element urban green infrastructure on regulating surface temperature in semi-arid city Tehran, Iran. Land (LST) and their immediate surroundings, derived from Landsat images winter to autumn 2017, are analysed two districts with different local climate zones population density levels. The results show that highest levels cooling observed spring summe...

Tehran’s Archaeology of Garbage project was conducted in 2017–2018 and with the initial aim monitoring impacts currency devaluation on poor people. In Districts 7 17, team investigated two most decayed urban fabrics Tehran as well garbage bags 1004 marginalized families. Among these, we managed to find evidence a forgotten social group, ‘impoverished middle class’ which consisted people from mi...

Associate Professor, Department of Virology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran Assistant Professor, Dental Research Center, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences AND Department of Operative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Associate Professor, Dental Research Center, Dentistry Research Institute, Tehran Unive...

1 Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Molecular-Cellular Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 2 Metabolomics and Genomics Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Molecular-Cellular Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 3 Toxicology and Diseases Group, Pharmaceutical Scie...

1School of Public Health and Institute of Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 22/10/02; accepted: 18/08/03 ABSTRACT An insecticide containing azadirachtin, a neem tree (Azadirachta indica) extract, was tested against mosquito larvae in the Islamic Republic of Iran under laboratory and field conditions. LC50 and LC90 values for Neema...

background: social capital has been defined as norms, networks, and social links that facilitate collective actions. social capital is related to a number of main social and public health variables. therefore, the present study aimed to determine the factors associated with social capital among the residents of tehran, iran.   methods: in this large cross-sectional population-based study, 31531...

Author details Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Traditional Iranian Medicine and Pharmacy Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Medicinal Plants Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharm...