INTRODUCTION Since adoption of the measles case-based surveillance system in Zimbabwe in 1998, data has been routinely collected at all levels of the health delivery system and sent to national level with little or no documented evidence of use to identify risky populations, monitor impact of interventions and measure progress towards achieving measles elimination. We analysed this data to dete...

The CSD’s set of sustainability indicators was the first one to explicitly take into account the fourth essential dimension of sustainability, the institutional one, besides the well established economic, environmental and social ones. Although this is a major achievement for sustainability policies, the indicators proposed have not all been received with enthusiasm. This results not from the c...

the issue of sustainable development has been widely acknowledged and spread rapidly after united nations conference on environment and development in rio in 1992. considerable attention is given to urban settlement areas. thus, role of urban development is seen as a challenging issue under circumstances. outcomes of the current patterns of world population growth and industrial development are...

better understanding and recognizing the amount of cultural development in iranian provinces and comparing them, causes a particular attention and helps to recognize their weaknesses, strengths, potentialities and deficiencies. the purpose of this paper is to analyze cultural development indicators in iran. the writers of this article present an applied research and use a comparative method. us...

background & objectives: regional planning requires identification of the development status of regions relative to each other. one of the indicators of development is health indicator that describes utilization of health services in the society. the purpose of this study is to analyze health indicators status in ardabil province and prioritize them for future planning. methods: based on practi...

background: social health is important to be assessed as a dimension of health. in this study we tried to determine areas and sub-areas of children social health indicators.   methods: in a structured way, we reviewed the main social health databases and documents since 1995, both iranian and international were reviewed to develop conceptual framework and to extract indicators.   results: accor...