background: work is the key component for most people in regard to financial, social and wellbeing matters. employment is an important factor underpinning mental health disorders. however, unemployment remains an unsolved issue worldwide. numerous studies have focused on employment outcomes in people with severe mental illness (smi) but, only a few have explored their perspective on employment....

every year, millions of moslems depart to saudi arabia from more than one hundred countries around the world for paying to hajj precept. high percentages of these pilgrims suffer from an influenza-like illness (ili). this study was designed and conducted on 32370 iranian pilgrims (36% of total number of iranian pilgrims) to evaluate the incidence of the illness and determination of influenza va...

in december 2015, the world health organization (who) published the first ever report on the estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases, which included diseases related to chemical exposures in foods such as peanut allergy. in the report, the burden of disease related to peanut allergies was measured for the european, american and west pacific regions. the report showed that unlike ot...

background & aim: people with multiple sclerosis (ms) face numerous physical and psychological problems and use multiple strategies to manage these problems to reduce its impact on their own lives. the aim of this study is to explore the self-management strategies in people with ms . methods & materials: this study is a qualitative research with content analysis approach. data were collected th...

background:child health improvement is one of the most important indexes in health programs among all countries. one of the eight millennium development goals for 2015 is reduction of child mortality. based on who recommendation integrated management of childhood illness (imci) is one of the most effective strategies to reduce under five mortality rates. in this study, we tried to compare knowl...

Congenital heart defects (CHD) are the most common types of major birth defects, leading cause infant morbidity and mortality. Syndromic babies more affected by CHD. This observational study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital military facility Bangladesh. Eighty syndromic neonates were studied through history, physical examination investigated for incidence risk factors Out 80 61(76.3%) ...

BACKGROUND Babies of mothers with psychotic disorders are known to have higher rates of poor obstetric outcome, including higher mortality rates. OBJECTIVE To estimate risks of stillbirth and neonatal death by specific causes in babies of mothers with histories of severe mental illness, relative to the general population. METHODS A cohort of 1.45 million live births and 7021 stillbirths dur...

Correspondence to: Associate Professor Paul Monagle, Divisional of Laboratory Services, Royal Children’s Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; paul.monagle@ wch.org.au _________________________ C ongenital heart disease, with a wide spectrum of severity, affects approximately 1% of all live births. The majority of congenital cardiac struct...

background: stigma is one of the obstacles in the treatment and regaining the mental health of people with mental illness. the aim was determination of mental illness stigma among nurses in psychiatric wards. this study was conducted in psychiatric wards of teaching hospitals in tabriz, urmia, and ardabil in the north-west of iran. materials and methods: this research is a descriptive analysis ...

Toxoplasmosis is one of the most common zoonosis worldwide. Caused by protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii, it has estimated that up to a third human population worldwides infected with it. Humans are ingesting oocysts shed cats or eating undercooked meat containing cysts.T. gondii can cause serious illness fetus during congenital infection and fatal in immuno-compromised patients too. In addit...