Objective(s): This survey investigates factors affecting HEALTH House services utilization in Damavand, a small city in Tehran Province. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 400 people aged above 30 years who lived in the catchment area of different HEALTH HOUSES (primary HEALTH care or PHC clinics) in Damavand in 2003-4. Fourteen out of the 27 existing HEALTH HOUSES were selected at random. Systematic samples proportional to size of the target population were drawn in every village. Subjects completed questionnaires at their homes. Data analysis included chi-square and logistic regression and was performed using the SPSS package. Results: 49.5% of men and 77.1 % of women have reported that they were using HEALTH House facilities from September 2002 to March 2004, while 24.5% of men and 20.3% of women did not. 26% of men and 2.6% of women have never used these services. The factors for non-utilization were: male sex, type of occupation, higher education, time spent getting to the HEALTH House more than 20 minutes, waiting times above 20 minutes inside the HEALTH House, providers' unfriendly behavior, lack of consultation regarding different services, physical environment of HEALTH HOUSES, inappropriate service timing (P<0.001 for all), poor communication (P<0.04), long latent periods for hypertension-related disability, (P<0.02) and a refusal to admit the detrimental effects of HTN on life expectancy (P<0.01). Conclusion: Appropriate interventions addressing the above factors could improve service utilization.

INTODUCTION: The aim of this study was evaluation of HEALTH service serving in Kurdistan`s HEALTH HOUSES in 1998. MATERIALS & METHODS: Data was collected from 166 HEALTH HOUSES throughout the province by (multistage) random sampling. We used a questionnary including 165 questions for evaluation of HEALTH systems and multiple practices in HEALTH HOUSES. Computerized analysis of data was performed by measuring 2 and variance analysis. RESULTS: Forty seven percent of female HEALTH workers and 49% of male HEALTH workers were not native. More than 50% of both male and female HEALTH workers were not resident in HEALTH house of main village. Eeighteen percent of them were resident in the city. The coverage of vaccination and caring of pregnant women were 96% and 91.5%, respectively. They were significantly different in HEALTH systems throughout the province (P=0.013). Family planning coverage was 73% and it was significantly different among HEALTH systems (P=0.003).Coverage of infant`s care was 86% and there was no significant difference among HEALTH systems (P=0.621). CONCLUSIONS: Coverage of vaccination and caring pregnant women were acceptable while there was significant problems regarding HEALTH house building, residency of HEALTH workers, using native HEALTH works, providing essential drugs, HEALTH supports, official and pecuniary supports, continuous program for travelling physician and HEALTH team and environmental HEALTH (microbiological analysis of water, hygienic toilettes, water chlorinating) that warrant further attentions and supervisions by responsible managers.

Nowadays, application of animal models has been widely considered in medical sciences with huge expenditure throughout the world.In order to control of animal house hygiene housing requirements, temperature, building and ethical issues has been recommended.In a descriptive study on animal HOUSES and animal labs in Tehran, fifteen centers were identified and surveyed. In this study seven factors including building, cooling and warming system cages, ventilation, nutrition and hygiene were evaluated.Our finding showed that 46.6 percent of animal HOUSES in Tehran were under standard measurement and only 26.6 percent of them were in optimal situation.thus application of above mentioned standards is recommended.

This research was conducted to evaluate the performance of HEALTH HOUSES and HEALTH centers in Ghorveh city. The research was a cross - sectional study in nature. The study population was 257 women who have at least one child under 24 months old and inhabited in the selected villages. A questionnaire and a checklist were used as research instruments.The findings of the study reveal that about 54% were satisfied with the performance of HEALTH HOUSES and 35% were satisfied with the performance of rural HEALTH centers.

Background: One of the many tasks of rural HEALTH HOUSES (HHs) is to provide HEALTH education for rural clients. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the conditions and responsibilities of HHs regarding HEALTH education. Methods: Through systematic random sampling, 1600 HHs were selected during April-September 2011. Besides the characteristics of HHs, type of training, audience groups, time of education, number of participants, and reasons for educational classes were requested in a written format from the selected HHs. Data were analyzed using Excel 2007 and SPSS version 16. Results: In total, 21. 9% of HHs had no group education within the first 5 months. Most education was related to the field of reproductive HEALTH, followed by intestinal diseases. The largest target group included mothers eligible for family planning. The mean duration of education was 33. 6 minutes per week. Based on the findings, 55% of training was conducted due to provincial HEALTH priorities. Conclusions: Although cardiovascular diseases, road traffic accidents, and cancers are the major causes of mortality in Iran, most education concentrated on reproductive HEALTH, as well as mother and child HEALTH. Therefore, modifications in educational methods and planning are necessary.

Background: Efficient HEALTH information management can lead to timely and useful decision in the system. Objective: To assess HEALTH information management in HEALTH system of Qazvin Province. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2008. The 3 levels of HEALTH Care System of Qazvin were assessed. By targeted sampling; 10 HEALTH HOUSES, 5 Rural HEALTH Centers & Shahid Bolandian HEALTH Center of Qazvin city were selected to study. Questionnaires and Checklists were used for data collection. The data were analyzed with spss13 software. Findings: From 9262602 units of information were produced in HEALTH system, about 683563 units (7.3% of total information) were sent to higher levels. The frequency distribution views of experts which were gathered about situation of HEALTH system about data collection and information transfer were as: moderate (23.2%), fair (76.8%) and data processing and analyzing: weak (0%), moderate (15.9%) and fair (84.1%). concerning the interpretation of information: weak (1.4%), moderate (23.2%) and fair (75.4%), and method of data control: moderate (21.7%) and fair (78.3%). Conclusion: With respect to findings for effective decision making, it is necessary to pay attention to screening subject in low levels and educating of information interpretation methods to statisticians in these levels.

Background: Psychological burnout syndrome based organization consisting of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. HEALTH workers as frontline troops (Primary HEALTH Care- PHC) with the mission of promoting public HEALTH are exposed to a variety of physical and psychological problems. This research aims to “determine the status of burnout in HEALTH care personnel working in the homes of a number of HEALTH center in 2013” was conducted to provide an appropriate.Methods: This study is a descriptive - cross-sectional analysis of 120 HEALTH workers employed - Esfahan 1HEALTH center was conducted. Data were collected with a questionnaire including personal information, professional information, questionnaire, Maslach (Maslach), respectively. Data were analyzed for statistical software SPSS version 20, SPSS Pearson, T-independent, analysis of variance and Spearman correlation were used.Findings: The resulting score was moderate in all dimensions of burnout (mean= 42.1 and Standard deviation =14.7). Depersonalization dimensions of burnout in the emotional domain scores (P<0.001 and R=0.654) and also the emotional realm and scope of job burnout (P<0.001 and R=0.572) and depersonalization area reduction of individual success (P<0.001 and R=0.693) correlation existed. The overall mean score of burnout, emotional and reduced personal accomplishment significantly higher in women than men (P<0.05). Educational level HEALTH workers with burnout scores on the various dimensions of the relationship away from the home HEALTH home HEALTH workers, increased emotional burnout(P =0.4).Conclusion: This study showed that the prevalence and severity of burnout among HEALTH workers HEALTH Center, a number of medium but Burnout in women than in men, the reason can be simultaneously performed tasks and home tasks, jobs, HEALTH workers and children which increases the level of anxiety and stress as well as distance and lack of access to transportation facilities for commuting to work on.

Performance evaluation HEALTH HOUSES of Firouzkouh City and consideration of their efficiency, is the main purpose of this study and it can help improving the efficiency of HEALTH HOUSES and determining appropriate strategies and programs to advancement and development of these goals. In this study, we have used the point of views of the experts and professors of operation article and we studied the previous investigations to evaluate the performance of HEALTH HOUSES. So, we determined 2 important inputs and 3 outputs from March 2012 to March 2013. Then we evaluated their efficiency by CCR model and found that 5 heath HOUSES among these 18 HEALTH HOUSES obtained number 1 in efficiency HOUSES. Finally we ranked the HOUSES based on the efficiency by AP-CCR. Finding showed that Arjomand, Mozdaran, and Jeliz Jand HEALTH HOUSES allocated to the first three points respectively.