original article   although the international labor organization (ilo) has reported that two-thirds of the world’s occupations belong to women, a few studies regarding employed women have been conducted. the present study aimed at conducting survey on scientific outputs regarding women’s occupational health. this cross-sectional study was conducted from 2010 to 2014 at five-year intervals on a ...

BACKGROUND Health related quality of life (HRQOL) can be measured by a wide range of instruments, many of which have been designed for specific conditions or uses. "Preference-based" measures assess the value individuals place on health, and are included in economic evaluations of treatments and interventions (such as cost effectiveness analysis). As economic evaluation becomes more common, it ...

AIM To test alternatives to the current research and clinical practice of assuming that married or partnered status is a proxy for positive social support. BACKGROUND Having a partner is assumed to relate to better health status via the intermediary process of social support. However, women's health research indicates that having a partner is not always associated with positive social support...

Marital violence has long suffered inattention from social agencies and the health care system. Now as an emerging social problem, the battered woman has become the focus of numerous articles in the lay press which vividly describe her plight. Because there are no controlled studies of these women, little is known about the variables that distinguish them from the general population, and what m...

Four facets of leaving an abusive relationship are reviewed: (a). factors related to initially leaving an abusive partner; (b). the process of leaving an abusive relationship; (c). the psychological well-being of survivors after leaving; and (d). the predictors of this well-being. The conceptual and methodological limitations of studies in each of these areas are presented. Consistently found p...

background & aim: domestic violence is an individual and social damage, which is affected by personality traits and can cause a crisis for the mental health of individuals; thus, the present study aimed to investigating personality traits and its impact on mental health of battered women in tehran, 2013. methods:in this cross-sectional study, 196 married women who referred to tehran legal medic...

background: prevention of unwanted pregnancy is a key strategy to improve the women’s health through spacing of birth and avoiding pregnancy at high-risk maternal ages. unmet need by definition is the percentage of fecund married women who are not using contraceptives while they do not want to get pregnant. they do this due to unavailable quality services, limited choice of methods, lack of inf...

background to identify the prevalence of behavioural (pre-pregnancy), obstetrical and medical risks of pregnancy in iranian women.   methods a total of 2993 postpartum women who delivered in 23 randomly selected hospitals of six provinces were enrolled in this nationwide cross-sectional study. a structured questionnaire was completed based on interviewees’ self-reports and medical record data, ...

background: cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women in the world and the most common cancer in developing countries. secondary prevention, achieved through pap smear testing, is the single most effective tool in reducing deaths due to cervical cancer. the aim of this study was to determine factors affecting the belief to obtain a regular pap smear test among women based on ...

background: in this study, we examined the status of korean women’s alcohol consumption and identified the physical changes they undergo according to the level of consumption. the results of this study may thus be used as raw data to effectively control women’ drinking habits. methods: this study consists of a secondary analysis using data from female participants in the 6 th korea national hea...