[Stress in senior managers of kohgilouyeh and boyrahmad province]

Stress is a collection of reactions against incompatible and unexpected internal and external factors. Since the manager of any organization is exposed to stress more than other personnel. The present study was performed to determine the rate of stress in senior managers and their assistants in Kohgilouyeh and Boyrahmad province. In this descriptive, cross-sectional study, all the 134 senior managers and their assistants were recruited through a stress questionnaire. The questionnaire included six physical, individual, cultural, occupational, familial domains, and physical conditions of job environment. It was revealed that the avarage rate of stress was 54.88, and 34.3% of the subjects appeared to experience high stress. Occupational stress [58.73] appeared to be the most stressful domain and physical stress [41 .43] was the least stressful one, respectively. Violation from regulations, success of the opportunists, and showing discrimination toward the referrals turned out to be the most stressful options. Since in this study the occupational dimension had created the highest degree of stress in the managers, it appears that the greatest and most effective step in decreasing the managers' stress is perhaps accurate supervision, appropriate encouragement and finally due punishment proportionate the managers' performance

[Rate of vaccination coverage in infants up to 12 months of age in kohgilouyeh and boyrahmad province 2000-2001]

Vaccination of children has been accepted as an appropriate and effective method of prevention the some serious diseases and a large number of countries all over the world have managed to perform it within their national framework of the health programs .Howevere due to the scope of health system of different countires, the coverage appeared to be of different magnitudes. The present study aimed at surveying the degree of vaccination coverage of children under one year of age in Kohgilouyeh and Boyrahmad province. In this crosss - sectional descriptive study a total number of 420 infants were selected through a random cluster sampling In 2000-2001. information about the subjects vaccination history was worked out using their vaccination cards. The data were analyzed employing descriptive statistict, Pearson Test and ANOVA. The study revealed a vaccination coverage of 90% to 99%. the coverage was 94.2% for the third term of oral drop of polio 94.2%, for the second term of DPT, 95.7% for the third term of DPT, 92.7% for the third term of hepatitis, 90.7% for measles, and 99.8% for BCG. The most important causes of delay in receiving the vaccines were reported to be lack of vaccine, season of migration, infants disease, remoteness and lack of transportation, raining, season of labor, and mother's disease. Vaccination coverage within the national programs and WHO protocols appears to be greatly useful and appropriate. However, to achieve this importance, appropriate planning and teaching both people and the health staff about the promotion and quality of the point is felt necessary