BACKGROUND Inequality in households' and individuals' consumption expenditures is one of the most important aspects of health status difference among households and individuals. OBJECTIVES We investigated the impact of some macro-economic factors specially inequality factors on the Iranian rural health status since 1986 through 2012. PATIENTS AND METHODS We conducted a longitudinal ecologic...

Two new species records of Oplitidae, Oplitis exopodi Hunter & Farrier, 1975 and Oplitis sarcinulus Hunter & Farrier, 1976 are redescribed based on Iranian specimens from leaf-litter forest in Mazandaran province, northern Iran. A key to the Iranian species of Oplitis is presented.

Sara Forootan, Mohammad Reza Forootan, Yalda Mousazadeh. Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Medical Student in Bushehr University of Medical Science, Bushehr, Iran; Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of Euroscore (European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation) in predicting perioperative mortality after cardiac surgery in Iranian patient population. METHODS Data on 1362 patients undergoing coronary bypass graft surgery (CABG) from 2007 to 2009 were collected. Calibration was assessed by Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit. Area unde...

BACKGROUND This study explored the relationship between socio-economic characteristics at the individual and neighbourhood levels, and wellbeing and lifestyle behaviours of young Iranian women. METHODS Cluster convenience sampling was used to select 391 Iranian women participated in this cross-sectional survey in Shiraz, Iran in 2013. A scale adapted from the British General Household Social ...

beta-Thalassemia is a hereditary disease caused by any of 90 different point mutations in the beta-globin gene. Specific populations generally carry a small number of mutations, the most common of which are those that are widely distributed regionally. The present study constitutes an extensive molecular characterization of this disease in a small, highly inbred ethnic group with a high inciden...

Iranian oil companies are developing the technique of Hydraulic Fracturing (HF) operation to enhance the hydrocarbon recovery of deep carbonate formations. However, there is not a computerized tool or well defined framework for Iranian carbonate oil fields to select candidates. The ineffective HF experiences in the past emphasized that candidate selection is the frontline of a victorious HF ope...

Now a day, antibiotic resistance is a global health threat which is considered as the major cause of treatment failures in bacterial infection. H. pylori (Helicobacter pylori) is a spiral-shaped gram negative bacterium that colonizes in gastric mucosa and is responsible for serious gastrointestinal diseases including peptic ulcers and gastric cancer. Appearance and increasing of antibiotic resi...

BACKGROUND Adolescence is a period of overwhelming changes and challenges, which expose the adolescents to high-risk behaviors. Risky sexual relationship is one of these behaviors that entails physical risks and psychosocial harms. Various factors have been recognized to shape sexual behaviors in adolescents. This paper is an attempt to investigate the factors contributing to high-risk sexual b...