OBJECTIVE To investigate the rate of neural tube defects (NTDs) and their relation to gender, maternal age, consanguineous marriage, season, and drug consumption in Birjand, Iran. METHODS This research was carried out on 16,785 live or stillborn newborns in Birjand, Iran from April 1997 to December 2001. RESULTS The rate of NTDs was 2.97 per 1000. This rate was 1.97 per 1000 in males, and 3...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and even more so in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Iran is a LMIC and lacks information regarding injury for program and policy purposes. This study aimed to describe the incidence and patterns of injury in one province in South Eastern Iran. METHODS A hospital-based, retrospective case review u...

a synoptic method based on stream analysis is applied to understand the governing mechanism of summer rainfall occurrence in the south of iran. based on this, the rainfall data of 152 stations of iran were analyzed for a 33-year period (1970-2002). investigating the spatial and temporal distribution of summer rainfall, a typical rainy region is recognized in the south east of iran. it is found ...

OBJECTIVE The present study examined the prevalence of underweight and overweight in a group of primary-school children in Zahedan, south-east Iran. DESIGN A cross-sectional study in a randomly selected population of schoolchildren. SETTING Primary-school children in Zahedan city. SUBJECTS A random sample of 1079 students (boys = 500 and girls = 579). Data on child's age, parental educati...

Concentrated HIV epidemics have already occurred in IDUs in the neighbouring India, Myanmar and Nepal (WHO, Regional Office South-East Asia, 2008). Due to porous borders with India and Myanmar and central geographical situation between ‘Golden Triangle’(Myanmar, Thailand and Laos) and ‘Golden Crescent’ (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran), Bangladesh is a potential route of international drugs traf...

INTRODUCTION Asia and Pacific region is the largest region in the world with a vast geographic area of land and water, some 60 per cent of the world’s population and includes 55 countries as defined by the United Nations. The countries span a wide part of the globe from Iran and Armenia in the west to French Polynesia in the east, from the Russian Federation and Japan in the north to New Zealan...

regime? What about the Iran-Iraq nuclear entanglement? Can both issues be dealt with under a regional arrangement? Can new global approaches be reconciled with a regional approach in the Middle East? This article attempts to identify and explore some of these issues, examining the Middle Eastern nuclear situation in light of the experience of Iraq, North Korea, South Africa, and Latin America. ...

Weather and climate have a strong influence on tourism and the recreation sector, which is a very important industry. Since tourism is becoming one of the main industries all over the world, it plays an important role in promoting national and local economic development. This paper attempts to show the role of climate in tourism seasonality and tries to study the impacts of climate resources on...