in developing countries, the domination of peripheral and dependent capitalism relations and the lack of appropriate structures and channels of attracting, this system have caused some kind of spatial-anatomic unbalances that has resulted in the appearance of single cities with national and regional prevalence. this situation is the main reason for small, medium and intermediate cities to lose ...

Since the 1970s, the federal government has spearheaded major national education programs to reduce the burden of chronic diseases in the United States. These prevention and disease management programs communicate critical information to the public, those affected by the disease, and health care providers. The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), the leading federal program on diabetes s...

BACKGROUND Meticulous steps and procedures are proposed in planning guidelines for the development of comprehensive multiyear plans for national immunization programmes. However, we know very little about whether the real-life experience of those who adopt these guidelines involves following these procedures as expected. Are these steps and procedures followed in practice? We examined the adopt...

shortage of water has been a great consideration since ancient times in iran. the yearly average atmospheric precipitation in iran is around 250 mm considering the total area of the country, it can be estimated that our share of water is 420 x 109 per year. due to evaporation and run off to the sea through rivers and infliction it has been estimated the available water can not be more than 120 ...

This article seeks to understand how the nationalization of SDGs exercises affects NDPs. Drawing on theories norm localization, it examines NDPs and visions five countries see as normative tools shift or steer a pre-existing alignment between global domestic norms. Our study finds that offer alternatives traditional frameworks, but they have not fundamentally changed state's dominant developmen...