With regard to limits in budget, inevitably, one must choose prioritized projects in pavements rehabilitation and maintenance process. This paper looks into prioritization based upon a model including all effects of important factors like pavement condition index, traffic volume, road width as well as rehabilitation and maintenance cost. Since defining a model that introduces all those factors ...

BACKGROUND Domestic violence is one of the major health problems among women. Promoting preventive behaviors of domestic violence among women and girls can play crucial role in reducing this health problem. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of an intervention based on PRECEDE-PROCEED Model on preventive behaviors of domestic violence among Iranian high school girls. ...

This paper analyses the impact of economic conditions and access to primary health care on health outcomes in Norway. Total mortality rates, grouped into four causes of death, were used as proxies for health, and the number of general practitioners (GPs) at the municipality level was used as the proxy for access to primary health care. Dynamic panel data models that allow for time persistence i...

tehran municipality, at the lowest level, has been divided to many inner- city areas. if the municipality is going to provide desired services to citizens, it is necessary to design the characteristics of organized inner-city areas. this research is designed to identify the characteristics of organized inner-city areas in tehran city- based on the benchmarking mechanism. required data was gathe...

Dear Editor: Fortification programs are not established for nutrients like vitamin D among other nutrients in Iran. It is reported that approximately 80% of Iranians do not meet the estimated average requirement for calcium and vitamin D [1] . The Iranian Multicenter Osteoporosis Study (IMOS) has shown that more than 80% of Iranians have vitamin D deficiency [2] . However, currently, there is n...

Introduction: Optimization of waste collection systems can reduce waste management costs. In this study, optimization of the waste collection system of district 3 of Yazd municipality of Iran has been investigated using underground containers. Materials and Methods: In this research, after collecting information and performing field inspections, the statistical and raster information obtained ...

This descriptive study was conducted to determine the prevalence of asthma and related symptoms among 6-7 and 13-14 year old school children in Tehran as a part of International study of Asthma and Allergies in childhood (ISAAC) phase III. The ISAAC written questionnaire was given to a total of 6127 students of 72 schools in urban area of Tehran. Simple random sampling was performed with a unif...