1. Assistant Professor , Endocrine & Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Technical Officer, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran 4. Assistant Professor, Kordestan Digestive Research Center, Kordestan University...

BACKGROUND During the last decades, the number of dentistry units increased significantly across the country. The aim of this study was to assess the efficiency of dental units of Iran provinces regarding dental health inputs and outputs using Data Envelopment Analysis approach. METHODS In this applied descriptive-analytical study, the study population included all of Iran 31 provinces. The o...

objective: this study was conducted to evaluate the frequency of human hydatidosis in kurdestan province by elisa technique. materials and methods: in this study the sera of 1979 individuals were collected from different area (cities and villages) of kordestan province. the serum dilution of 1/400 was selected for elisa test. results:the results indicated that 1.12% of the individuals from k...

Cockroaches play an important role in transmission of different diseases either mechanically and occasionally biologically. The aim of current study was on the identification of cockroaches and their contamination to different bacteria in two hospitals affiliated to the Kordestan University of Medical Sciences which was performed in 2003. Cockroaches were collected from different parts using st...

in order to evaluate the weed diversity in forage crop fields such as alfalfa (medicago sativa l.), clover (trifolium sp.) and sainfoin (onobrychis spp.) in different provinces of iran, a study was conducted by using data from reports of plant protection organization, ministry of agriculture during 2008. after evaluation of weed species and definition of weed family, these species classified ba...

this study conducted during 3 years period (2002-2004). tick sampling was randomly carried out from domestic animals during seasonal activity of ticks from six provinces of iran. 2170 ticks from 151 cattle , 629 sheep, 336 goats and 32 camels were collected proin 30 prosseces with a mean number of 1.9 tick per animal. 209 dermacentor ticks collected from six provinces( kordestan, ardebil, east ...

thrips tabaci is one of the most important pests causing serioues damages on onion s in iran despite several chemical sprayings. to assess the population density and damage of the thips on onion, improved sefid-e-khomein genotype along with seven other iranian cultivars of onoin were planted in a rcb design with four replications in two separate experiments (sprayed and non-spray ed ) in arak f...