Introduction: This study set out to investigate the efficacy of training through emotion-focused therapy (EFT) on the improvement of marital passion. Correspondence: Mohammad Baghban, PhD Student. Young Researchers and Elite Club Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Branch. Marvdasht, Iran Tel:+9...

coxiella burnetii is the etiological agent of coxiellosis in animals and q fever (a zoonotic disease) in humans. cattle, sheep and goats are the main reservoirs of infection for humans. this serological survey was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of coxiellosis in sheep and goat populations in khorasan razavi province, iran. four hundred and sixty animals (255 sheep from 29 herds in 12...

PROBLEM/CONDITION Estimated trends in county-level vaccination coverage compared with national health objectives and associated with other variables (e.g., access to care, economic conditions, and demographic characteristics) have not been reported previously. REPORTING PERIOD 1995-2008. DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM The National Immunization Survey (NIS) is an ongoing, random-digit-dialed telephon...

background:although intellectual disability (id) is a common disability in iran, there is no investigation on the spatial distribution pattern of these patients in national level and the spatial maps for recognition the areas with higher prevalence of ids and local neighborhoods of these regions or effect of socio-demographic factor on this scattering is not still available. this proposition mo...

Background: The current study aims to determine whether suicide decedents who are residents of wet counties have higher odds of alcohol involvement than suicide decedents who are residents of moist/dry counties; and determine whether the association between alcohol sale status and alcohol-related suicide exists only in counties with a high population size. Methods: Multilevel logistic regressio...

Previous research on land elevation and cancer death rates in the U.S. revealed lower cancer death rates in higher elevations. The present study further tests the possible effect of land elevation on a diffident health outcome, namely, heart disease death rates. U.S. counties not overlapping in their land elevations according to their lowest and highest elevation points were identified. Using a...

AIM To examine the association of counties' urbanization level and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita on the access to health care. METHODS Counties were divided in two groups according to the urbanization level and GDP per capita in purchasing power standards. The number of physicians per 100,000 inhabitants, the number of physicians in hospitals in four basic specialties, physicians' w...

BACKGROUND Inequitable access to healthy food may contribute to health disparities. This study examines the relationship between the prevalence of adult diabetes and food access in the U.S. by county economic/racial composition. METHODS An ecological study from 2012 was used to estimate the relationship between diabetes and retail food outlet access. County diabetes prevalence was measured ba...

six cultivars of hexaploid wheat (hyrmand, shiraz, pishtaz, marvdasht, mahdavi, roshan ‎‎(susceptible check) and m-79-6) in subplots, and three seed treatments: i1 – seed without ‎treatment; i2- seeds artificially infected with bunt spores in 5/1000 ratio and i3- seeds treated ‎with carboxin thiram fs in main plots of a split plot trial within a rcbd with three ‎replications and 3 locations of ...