Background: The evaluation of growth in children in addition to show nutritional status and HEALTH of children in each community is considered as a valid tool for measuring quality of life (QoL). UNICEF reported a total of 40, 000 daily deaths due to malnutrition. The present study was conducted to review the nutritional status of rural children under 6 in Zahedan, Iran.Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 514 rural children 6 to 59 months by multistage random sampling and by questionnaire, interview and house-to-house survey in Zahedan were studied. Data collection tools were scale, questionnaire and metric measurement. Data analysis performed by Nutritional survey, besides anthropometric data were compared to National CENTER for HEALTH Statistics (NCHS). According to these criteria, the moderate and severe underweight, wasting and stunting was Z score£-2 and severity of malnutrition was defined as mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) less than 115.Findings: 17.3%, 25.5% and 6.8% of the studied children had moderate to severe underweight, stunted and wasted, respectively. Overall average height (83±11.4 vs.82±12.2), weight (11±2.6 vs.10±2.6) and MUAC (145±14.3 vs.141±16.2) in the boys was higher than the girls. The prevalence of stunting (29.7% vs.22.5%), underweight (20.7% vs.15.7%) and wasted (9.8% vs.4.4%) were higher in boys than in girls (P>0.05).Conclusion: The findings indicated that the prevalence of malnutrition is one of public problems in the rural children under 6 in Zahedan. Thus, this suggested that the gap might be filled by improvement in nutrition and HEALTH services along with the socio-economic development.

In this paper, a new high step-up current-fed LLC resonant DC-DC converter with a CENTER-tapped transformer is proposed. By selecting the switching frequency to be lower than, but near to, the series resonant frequency of the LLC resonant tank, soft-switching operation of all semiconductors, i.e., zero voltage switching (ZVS) turn-on of power MOSFETs and zero current switching (ZCS) turn-off of diodes is achieved. This leads to lower electromagnetic interference (EMI) and lower switching losses and improves the converter efficiency. An interleaved structure is used at the primary side. Thus, input current ripple is smaller, and its frequency is twice the switching frequency. Consequently, a smaller input filter is necessary in practice. The converter with 1.2 kW output power and 760 V regulated output voltage with 80-200 V input voltage variations is simulated. The output voltage is regulated by using asymmetric pulse width modulation (APWM) at 200 kHz switching frequency. Finally, a 700-W prototype has been implemented and experimental results are also presented to verify the simulation results.

Background and Aim: The district HEALTH information system (DHIS) converts raw data into useful manegerial information. The main purpose of DHIS is to improve quality of HEALTH services in service delivery points. This study was conducted to investigate the DHIS performance. Materials and Methods: A total of 200 HEALTH service-delivery units were selected by systematic random sampling, and the calculation of 47 primary HEALTH care indicators were assessed by the provincial HEALTH CENTER statistics supervisor. Results: On the average, 41.9% of the indicators had been calculated in each unit. In the district HEALTH CENTER, the proportions of outcome measures and process performance indicators calculated were 50% and 5.6%, respectively. On the basis of the indicators obtainable from the vital horoscope, 79% of the indicators in the district HEALTH CENTER and 66% of those in the HEALTH service-delivery units had been calculated. Finally, there were 97 disease-surveillance forms, 35 environment-HEALTH forms, 21 family-HEALTH forms, and 23 other forms at the district level. Conclusion: Re-designing the structure of the HEALTH information management process and determining indicator packages at the district and service-delivery level are vital steps for improving the HEALTH information system at the district level.

Introduction: The importance of clients satisfaction is increasing from day to day, thus, paying attention to client's needs is an effective strategy that guarantees organization continuity, quality and quantity promotion, decreasing the shortcomings and increasing the abilities (quantity) and potentialities. This study was carried out to evaluate the clients stat is faction in HEALTH care CENTERs.Materials & Method: This a descriptive, analytical and cross-sectional study which was carried out during 2003 in eight HEALTH care CENTERs of Shahid Beheshti University. For the purpose of this study, 280 clients were interviewed. They also completed a questionnaire, then, data were analyzed by SPSS and SAS software. The age mean of sample was 31±7.5.91% were female and 97.9% were married.Results: 87.5% of the sample had high level of satisfaction with the HEALTHcare services. The services were evaluated from six aspects among which the appropriate service expenses had got the highest score. Among the different units, the child care unit had preference over the others.Moreover, the clients satisfaction with the high quality of the services was the cause of their reference to those CENTERs (52.1%) 25% of the clients were unsatisfied with the delayed services. In addition, there was a negative relationship between age and the clients satisfaction (r=-0.215, p=0.001). On the other hand there was a significant relationship among satisfaction and job, the distance of CENTER from the clients residents and number of reference (p=0.001). No significant relationship among satisfaction and sex, marriage status, children's number and clients' education level. On the contrary, a significant difference was found among clients' education level and their satisfaction with the employees' attitude and assistance and the expenses trainings.