The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of sexual abuse and depression among street children who live in a deprived district of Tehran. The researchers used the K-SADS questionnaire and a clinical interview were used to evaluate depression and sexual abuse in 87 street children in Tehran. Eighteen (20.9%) of the children had been sexually abused. Depressed children were 3.2 tim...

Background: Health is an essential component of human rights and the rights are interdependent, indivisible, and correlated. The present study aimed at codifying a multidimensional health index according to multistage index development and describing the status of this index in 22 municipal districts of Tehran. Methods: This study was conducted using the data collected in the second round of Ur...

OBJECTIVES Sarcopenia is associated with frailty and disability among the elderly and imposes significant costs on health care systems. We tested whether adherence to a particular dietary pattern was associated with sarcopenia among the elderly in a district of Tehran, Iran. METHODS We used a semiquantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire to assess the dietary intake of 300 randomly-selected e...

The rural informatization is one of the important foundation for the construction of the metropolis-modern agriculture, which Beijing government makes great effort to develop now. Based on current situation of rural informatization construction in Mentougou district of Beijing, this study established an information demonstration area in order to integrate the information from the local natural ...

It is widely believed that urban ecological landscape regards the city to be an ecosystem built by human activities and supported by natural and man-made functions and processes over time. In the past, human communities have selected their residing places and designed their cities by paying attention to natural environmental resources. The profound influence of technology and industry has broug...

INTRODUCTION Fair distribution of hospital beds across various regions is a controversial subject. Resource allocation in health systems rarely has focused on those who need it most and, in addition, is often influenced by political interests. The study assesses the distribution of hospital beds in different regions in Tehran, Iran, during 2010-2012. METHODS This cross-sectional study was con...

In the last decades, Tehran, as capital of Iran, has faced severe air pollution. Considering importance pollution, particularly PM2.5, study assesses environmental impacts (EIA) PM2.5 in Tehran metropolis using 4-year consecutive data (2014–2017). For this purpose, inverse distance weighting model, geographically weighted regression (GWR) and fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) for interpolat...

Research objective: the present study seeks to assess and analyze status of residential quality indicators in 22 urban regions Tehran metropolis.
 Methodology: 79 variables are classified into four physical, economic, ecological, socio-cultural indices. Shannon entropy model, coefficient variation, TOPSIS, hotspot analysis, Moran spatial autocorrelation were used for data analysis.
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