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Hypertension is one of the major risk factors of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Blood pressure measurement is an essential condition for diagnosis of hypertension. The objective of the study is to assess blood pressure measurement by in health care centres in tehran, and compare it with AHA[1] standards. In this descriptive and comparative study, observation were performed with a list according to the AHA criteria. Five hundred professionals took part in the study. After measuring blood pressure, the level of concordance between the way the procedure was performed and the recommended one was assessed. 58% of nurses and nurse's students followed the recommended procedures as set before.The other categories of health professionals [Associate Nurse, physicians and Medicine Students] abided by approximately 42%. Educational activities should be implemented to improve standard blood pressure measurement specially among the different kinds of health professionals especially for those who aren't nurses
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Introduction: Rice farming need physical activity and can cause musculoskeletal disorders [MSD] among farmers. Most of previous studies were focused on prevalence of MSD in other body regions such as lumbar region so this study had been performed for assessment of MSD prevalence in lower limbs of Iranian rice farmers
Methods: This prospective study had been performed between March and October 2013 on 75 rice farmers and 75 non rice farmers of Babol city. Rice farming had been determined as exposure and MSD prevalence was assessed at three follow-up points in two, four and six months
Results: During six months follow-up, 47 farmer from exposure and 26 farmer from unexposed groups had been reported MSD at their lower limbs region. At two and fourth months after beginning the study, MSD prevalence in exposed group were significantly higher than unexposed group. At six months after follow up, MSD prevalence in lower limbs had non-significant differences between two groups
Conclusion: Rice farming was known as one of the risk factors for development of MSD on lower limbs of Iranian rice farmers
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As an information channel, press develops social norms, regulation and rules in the big communities and is affected by cultural, political and social conditions of their own time. Health prevention and promotions are one of the most important topics that are followed by press. For enhancing the quality of public health, press plays a significant role and can influence people with relevant information to inform them in different health subjects. The purpose of the study is to content analyses records of 26 popular magazines into two categories: 16 family magazine, and 10 mixed medical-family. The main objectives guided this study are related to the contents of health, nutrition, fitness, medication and treatment with identifying form of publication and rate of published information related to the health prevention. Also, the scientific aspects of different authors have been investigated in this report. The study clarifies that the published information related to Prevention topics has lower proportion compared with diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation topics, and they had 22.1% subjects in related to health issues, 2/9% related to health promotion, almost 1/4 or 21.8% of advertising-were related such as beauty creams, cosmetic services such as Botox laser for the treatment of some or cosmetic surgery. It should mention that the authors of the content which focused on physical health and prevention were women. Nowadays, contributions of press and magazines in health education and promotion are more than before. Therefore it is necessary they publish those types of materials that are robust enough scientifically to empower people for health seeking behavior