results almost half of the veterans did not demonstrate any psychopathology and half of them were diagnosed with borderline or serious psychopathology. veterans receiving disability pension had more mental problems in comparison with the employed veterans. veterans receiving disability pension had higher scores in psychosomatic disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety, phob...

background despite high immunization rates, hundreds of thousands of poor and underserved children continue to lack their necessary immunizations and are at risk of acquiring a vaccine-preventable disease. local health departments (lhds) and public health clinicians figure prominently in efforts to address this problem.   methods this exploratory research compared ten (10) north carolina lhds w...

BACKGROUND Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems are becoming more widespread in organizations. Consequently, their effectiveness has become a core topic for researchers. This paper evaluates the performance of the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series 18001 specification in certified companies in Iran. METHODS The evaluation is based on a comparison of specific criteri...

background: breast milk is important for the overall well-being of infants. although lactation is relatively robust in the face of poor nutrition, the implication of poor nutrition on non-nutritive factors in breast milk is inconclusive. objective: this study was designed to find associations between nutritional and immune factors in maternal blood and breast milk with the aim to improve the ne...

International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 200 and demonstrated adequate model fit (RMSEA=0.06, CFI=0.96, TLI=0.97). For the second-order factor of the wife’s autonomy items, the standardized factor loadings of each dimension ranged from 0.4 to 0.9 (p<.001), and the overall model fit was adequate (RMSEA=0.06, CFI=0.94, TLI=0.96). For the husband’s inequitable gender attitudes ...

prioritizing women's health helps achievement of the 4(th) and 5(th) goals of millennium development program. this study aimed to investigate association between social determinants of health and women's health of reproductive age.this population-based cross-sectional study, using multi-stage sampling procedure was conducted on 770, 15 to 49-year-old women residing in any one of the 22 municipa...

background health-related quality of life (hrqol) is an important factor for self-management behaviors of diabetic patients. these behaviors have special importance in preventing complications of diabetes. objectives this study has been conducted to evaluate hrqol of diabetic patients referred to tehran hospitals. patients and methods in this descriptive study patients were selected from diabet...

background: bread is the major food in middle east and iran. recent studies in iran have shown that daily bread consumption was 300gr. also, 40.2% of the total energy per person was obtained from bread. methods: this cross-sectional study was done in 81 bakeries in rafsanjan, iran in 2004. the main objective of this study was to determine some parameters of the bread, such as ph, nacl, dough an...

conclusions the significant improvement in the experimental group’s mean knowledge, hbm structures , and behavior scores indicates the positive effect of the intervention. background using various models of behavior change, a number of studies in the area of nutrition education have confirmed that nutrition habits and behaviors can be improved. objectives this study sought to determine the effe...

background: in the history there are long backgrounds to coexistence of human and domesticated animal. counter effect of more than 150 common diseases threat the human and domesticated health. due to climate condition of mazandaran, in the north of iran, the objective of the present study is to evaluate health conditions of the industrial animal husbandries (iah) during 2000-2001 . methods: thi...