Environmental sociology, one of the most important new and branches social literature, entered universities in 1970s was presented as an academic branch framework, style modus operandi. At University Kurdistan, it has been included value education programme over past few years. This scientific participates relationship between society environment, with exception discussing Internet types enviro...

Statistical Analysis of Landmine Fatalities in Kurdistan This study analyzes mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) victim data in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq during the period of the 1960s to 2005. In addition to descriptive analysis of the data, we use regression analysis to identify the determinants of the probability of getting killed by a mine or UXO and to estimate the determinants impacts....

The impressive hydraulic system built by the Assyrian King Sennacherib is composed by different archaeological areas, displaced along the Land of Nineveh, in Iraqi Kurdistan. The extensive project we are working on has the aim of mapping and geo-referencing any kind of documentation in order to design an archaeological-environmental park able to preserve and enhance the archaeological complex. ...

In 2010, the Kurdistan Regional Government asked the RAND Corporation to help guide reform of the health care system in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The overarching goal of reform was to help establish a health system that would provide high-quality services efficiently to everyone to prevent, treat, and manage physical and mental illnesses and injuries. This article summarizes the second phas...

BACKGROUND About 80% of deaths in 350 million cases of diabetes in the world occur in low and middle income countries. The aim of this study was to determine the status of diabetes socioeconomic inequality and the share of determinants of inequalities in Kurdistan Province, West of Iran, using two surveys in 2005 and 2009. METHODS Data were collected from non-communicable disease surveillance...

Jamal Seidi, Fatemah Alhani, Mahvash Salsali, Anoushirvan Kazemnejad. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing and midwifery, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran; Associate professor, Department of Nursing, faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran; Professor, Department of Medical and Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran of U...

following the death of nader shah afshar, the province of kurdistan, with sanandaj being the capital, ruled by the local influential dynasty of ardalan, underwent a severe power struggle triggered by pretenders to the government of iran, just as many other provinces experienced a similar power struggle. in addition, the strategic location of kurdistan as the closest neighboring province of otto...

1. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Dept. of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 4. Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Scien...