Background: Screening PROGRAM in schools are designed to identify children who have early signs of HEALTH problems. This study provides information about the findings of national screening PROGRAM in Iran.Methods: This national PROGRAM is conducted by the Ministry of HEALTH & Medical Education (MOHME) with collaboration of the Ministry of Education & Training. This PROGRAM had two major parts including 1) screening of behavioral, hearing and visual disorders, pediculosis and calculating body mass index and 2) physical examination of students, conducted by primary care physicians. All services are offered free of charge. The students’ parents are informed about the HEALTH status of their children.Results: The screening PROGRAM conducted in 2007-2008 included 3,124,021 students from 33 cities who were studying in the first- and third- grade- students in elementary schools, first- grade- students in middle and high schools. Of total students studied, 12.48% had weight disorders, i.e. body mass index <3rd percentile or ³ 95th percentile. 4.77% had visual disorders, 3.95 % had head lice, 2.24% had behavioral disorders, and 0.6% had hearing disorders.Conclusion: In addition to its benefits to the students’ HEALTH status, the results of this screening PROGRAM help HEALTH policy makers to design interventions for prevention and or early detection and treatment of the most common disorders documented among school students.

Objectives In order to maintain and improve older adults HEALTH, the INTEGRATED and comprehensive geriatric care PROGRAM has been developed and run by ministry of HEALTH. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of this PROGRAM on physical and MENTAL HEALTH of older adults in Golestan province in 2019. Methods & Materials The present retrospective cohort study employed a multistage clustered random sampling technique to obtain 500 e-HEALTH records of older adults during 2017-2019. The data on blood pressure, depression, and BMI were extracted from e-HEALTH records. Data analysis was conducted using repeated measure anova, paired t-test and Wilcoxon tests. The SPSS statistics software v. 20 was used to perform data analysis Results Of the 500 cases studied, were male and female, respectively. The Mean±, SD age of the participants was 69. 97±, 7. 45 years. The results of inferential statistics showed that the mean score of systolic blood pressure was significantly decreased through study period (P<0. 001). However, through study period depression score was significantly increased (P≤, 0. 05). There was no significant difference in BMI index. Conclusion The results of this study showed that the INTEGRATED and comprehensive geriatric PROGRAM was effective for controlling blood pressure, however was not effective for preventing depression. Therefore, stakeholders should pay more attention towards establishing appropriate PROGRAM to improve older adults' MENTAL HEALTH.

Objectives: The purpose of this project was to evaluate the status of integration of MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM in HEALTH centers and also to determine the prevalence of MENTAL disorders  in Andimeshk rural areas. Method: In this descriptive study, 16 HEALTH houses, three rural HEALTH centers, one urban HEALTH center, and a population of 23308 that have been under the coverage of MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM since 1992 were evaluated. The required data were collected via reviewing case files and statistical re-ports of city HEALTH center. Data were analyzed by statistical-descriptive methods and z-test. Findings: Prevalence of MENTAL disorders based on assessment of the HEALTH group was ten in every thousand. The rate is 1.1 for severe MENTAL group, 3.7 for mild MENTAL group, 2.7 for epilepsy, and 2.5 for MENTAL retardation. Statistical analysis did not indicate a significant difference between the types of MENTAL disorders (neurotics, epilepsy, and MENTAL retardation) with the expected indices at the national level. However, a significant difference was found in the severe MENTAL group (P<0.05). Results: After a decade, integration of MENTAL HEALTH in Andimeshk appears to be successful and with some modifications and corrections, it can provide essential MENTAL HEALTH services in rural areas.

Background: Screening of students´ HEALTH problems could lead to timely prevention and control of many HEALTH disorders. This study aimed to determine the nationwide prevalence of common disorders through school HEALTH screening PROGRAM in Iran.Methods: This cross-sectional national screening PROGRAM was conducted in 2007-2008 among first- and third-grade- students in primary schools, first- grade-students of middle and high schools of all provinces in Iran.Results: Data were obtained from 3,124,021 (81.9%) students reported from the whole country classified into 33 geographical zones. Of total students studied, 12.48% had weight abnormalities, 4.77% had visual disorders, 3.95 % had head lice, 2.24% had behavioral disorders, and 0.6% had hearing disorders. Among students studied, 0.4%, 0.7%, 0.4% and0.8% had endocrine, psychological, neurological and genitourinary disorders, respectively. In addition, 2.1%, 1.9%, 1.8%, 0.8%0.5%, 0.3% and 0.3% of students had ear, nose & pharynx disorder, anemia ,skin & hair , cardiac ,abdominal, vertebral and lung problems, respectively. In elementary schools, 57.6% of first-grade- students with at least one disorder were managed in outpatient settings and 6% of them were hospitalized for more investigation. Among third- grade- students of elementary schools, these values corresponded to 13.2% and 1.1%, respectively. Among first grade students of middle and high schools, this prevalence was 58.5% and 44.6% and 1.2% and 0.3% of students were hospitalized for more investigation. Conclusion: This INTEGRATED school screening PROGRAM revealed a considerably high prevalence of HEALTH disorders among school students. These results might help HEALTH policy makers to design future HEALTH promoting PROGRAMs.