background: more than 36 % of the total population of iran consists of young people aged 15 to 25 yr. recent studies show that this age group has the highest rate of serious health problems. youth participatory studies on youth health priority have shown that mental health is one of the most important priorities in youth health. aim to assessing the mental health needs of youth we conducted a p...

The Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 has been established to increase awareness of the scale and impact of musculoskeletal disorders on the individual, health care systems and the society. It is a multi-disciplinary initiative involving professional bodies, patient care groups, research organisations and the community.

Up to 10% of asthmatics have "difficult asthma"; however, they account for 80% of asthma-related expenditure and run the highest risk of acute severe exacerbations. An estimated 75% of admissions for asthma are avoidable. Guidelines advise that these patients be managed by an experienced specialist multidisciplinary team (MDT). We aimed to assess the impact of a case management strategy deliver...

This article describes the challenges that integration of Chinese medicine (CM) and biomedicine are likely to bring for improving safety, research, education, and cross-disciplinary communication. Potential strategies to meet these challenges are suggested, including the use of accessible language for the Western biomedical community, and further development of whole-system randomized controlle...

The Essential Instructional Practices for Disciplinary Literacy in the Secondary Classroom were presented to educational community 2016; this article, we look back at history and ahead classroom instruction present evolution of purpose practices disciplinary literacies. By examining literacy as a civil right throughout creation Literacy, path is revealed educators collaborate, differentiate pro...

i am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the persian language journals with specific english-language ones. our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, petroleum geology, engineering geo...