aim: tobacco use is one of the major causes of death worldwide and the most preventable risk factor of the coronary heart disease. the purpose of this study was to determine attitudes, risk perception and perceived vulnerability toward to water pipe (wp) smoking among male students in zarandieh city of iran. methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on 400 male adolescents...

in the process of investment decision making, next to financial indicators many other aspects of investment projects are increasingly often considered. this leads to the multi-criteria evaluation of a project. the advantage of multi-criteria methods is the ability to take into account all (not only financial) aspects of the attractiveness of an investment project. the selection of criteria of p...

conclusions managers and service providers need to know an ordinary woman’s perception of risk to address the gap between current and desired childbirth services and encourage women to use current hospital services. objectives this study explains how baloch women make decisions regarding the risks associated with childbirth at home versus a hospital. this study identifies and defines the factor...

introduction: nowadays ionizing radiation has a considerable contribution in medical diagnostic and treatment. using ionizing radiation is increasing rapidly, so biological effects of ionizing radiation should be considered more. x-rays in the range of diagnostic radiology have hazardous effects and risks that are defined as random effects. these effects obey the lnt hypothesis that occur at lo...

background: a cross-sectional analytic method was used to assess health and safety risks that really matter in restaurants of universities and hospitals in the gaza strip, palestine.  materials and methods: a 40-item questionnaire was completed by workers in all university and governmental hospital restaurants in the gaza strip. another 30-item questionnaire was completed by university students...

introduction: gail model is one of the most important models for the evaluation of breast cancer risk between us white females. according to genetic diversity, there is a possibility of affecting the efficiency of the gail model in risk assessment of breast cancer among iranian populations. in this study, the gail model efficiency in specifying the risk of breast cancer in iranian population wa...

background development of complications during gynecologic laparoscopic surgery depends on many factors such as history of previous laparotomies. this factor usually increases the veres and first trocar complications. objectives in this study, we compared all operative complications between the patients with and without previous abdominal surgery. patients and methods all operative complication...

Background & aim: AIDS is one of the major public health challenges all over the world. Perceived risk is a significant predictor of high-risk behaviors related to AIDS. Women constitute more than half of the HIV patients, and the rate of female sex workers with AIDS is more than the rest of female population. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate AIDS risk perception and its related f...

OBJECTIVES To gain an understanding of elderly people's fear of falling by exploring the prevalence and determinants of perceived and physiological fall risk and to understand the role of disparities in perceived and physiological risk in the cause of falls. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Community sample drawn from eastern Sydney, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 500 men and women aged ...