in this paper, by using the survival models, survival functions for the time from birth to the event of using formula (i.e. the time that baby in fed by breast milk) in urban and rural areas of takestan (iran, winter 1998) are reported. later the relation between the mentioned time and some factors are also discussed. the kaplan-meire method and cox regression are used in this paper as well. 48...

CONTEXT Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health problem that affects people across the entire social spectrum. However, no previous population-based public health studies have examined the prevalence of IPV in rural areas of the United States. Research on IPV in rural areas is especially important given that there are relatively fewer resources available in rural areas for the preven...

background avoidable mortality as an indicator for assessing the health system performance has caught the attention of researchers for a long time. in this study we aimed to compare the health system performance using this indicator in rural and urban areas of one of iran’s southern provinces.   methods all deaths (29916) which happened during 2004–2011 in bushehr province were assessed. nolte ...

Unbalanced distribution of population in a country like Iran as well as accelerating urbanization and environmental degradation, both arising from incorrect location of industrial areas, are two problems that require appropriate industrial development policies to get resolved. Considering the expansion of industrial areas along with their role in contamination of the environment, it is necessar...

extended abstract 1. introduction rural areas are environments that consist of different multiple sources and villagers use many assets and resources that shape their livelihood procedure. however, in most cases, incomplete and unconscious usage of sources is more destructive than uncontrolled industrial exploitation. for this reason, nowadays, rural poverty due to excessive pressure on resourc...

The article is devoted to the analysis of process industrial and social infrastructure facilities reconstruction in rural areas Sumy Oblast during post-war economy recovery 1945-1950. Characteristic features peculiarities setting up carrying out construction works region are highlighted. It was found that restored both by economic method own forces enterprises institutions, specialized organiza...

In Natural Landscape Complexes and Ecological Sites, local environmental protection is used to cover previous industrial activities, fragments of the cultural landscape, habitats both vertebrates invertebrates. water bodies within different types habitat protection, aquatic invertebrate fauna was studied investigate whether it a general rule that forms ensure diversity invertebrates in rural ar...