background: due to increasing life expectancy and declining fertility rates, the population over the age of 60 in developed and developing countries is increasing. this matter draws attention toward the improvement of the health of the elderly and consideration of the health and treatment needs of this important group of human society. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of integ...

introduction: the present study aimed to assess the efficacy of use of combined cognitive interventions to prepare the child and parent, and distraction of child’s attention on reported intensity of pain, distress caused by lumbar puncture, and situation-related quality of life of children with cancer. method : this was a clinical trial using pretest-posttest method and a control group. study...

measuring health related quality of life of old people has become an important public health issue with the aging of population in developing countries. the aim of this study was to examine the health related quality of life of old people living in bandar abbas, iran. this was a population-based study in which a random sample of 1000 individuals of the community aged over 60 years were intervie...

introduction : oral health is an important aspect of public health which affects people’s quality of life. oral health related quality of life is assessed to evaluate the effect of different diseases on individual’s daily life quality. the aim of this study was to examine the oral health related quality of life in patients with head and neck tumors who received radio and chemotherapy. materials...

quality of life in adolescent girls with diabetes hemmati maslakpak m[1]* received: 22 jun, 2012 accepted: 20 sep, 2012abstractbackground & aims: quality of life is now recognized as an important outcome for adolescents with diabetes. diabetes may affect men and women equally, but the suffering associated with the disease when it appears in adolescent girls will have disastrous effects on their...

OBJECTIVES To inform researchers and clinicians about the most appropriate generic and disease specific measures of health related quality of life for use among people with ischaemic heart disease. METHODS MEDLINE and BIDS were searched for research papers which contained a report of at least one of the three most common generic instruments or at least one of the five disease specific instrum...

introduction: given growing elderly population and high prevalence of oral and dental diseases in this age group, this study was conducted to investigate oral health status and related quality of life among older adults in yazd located in central iran. methods: the cross sectional study was carried out on 210 elderly people aged ≥ 60 years under the guise of yazd health care centers who entered...

please cite this article as : heidarnia ma, ghaemian t, montazeri a, abadi ar. evaluation of the relation between poverty and health-related quality of life in the people over 60 years-old in the district 4 of tehran municipality in 2009-2010. novel biomed 2013;1:23-28. as the articles in recent years well indicate, more than all other factors, social determinants of health are involved in peop...