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Dariush D. Farhud, MD, Ph.D., MG.
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Vol 12 No 1-4 (1983)
Articles
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This survey was carried out on children less than five years of age from rural areas of three provinces in Iran (west Azarbaijan, Bushehre, and central province), with different health care delivery systems and various types of immunization scheme, to determine the immune status of measles and the vaccine coverage. Our results indicate that the rates of measles immunity and Vaccine Coverage for all age groups are more satisfactory in chongralu, West-Azarbaijan where the immunization services are provided by a network of health care delivery system than in Bushehre province where the immunization services are delivered by mobile teams or in Fashapouyeh, central province where the immunization activities are provided by a mixed system.
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A one year faunistic study was carried out in Minab area, starting January 1982, to investigate the possible hazards of the newly constructed Minab Dam in increasing the mosquito transmitted diseases. In view of this, a baseline data was gathered by sampling 4th instar mosquito larvae from different kinds of breeding sites, present in Minab area as well as the 4 districts surrounding it. In this program total of 4000 mosquito larvae, from 164 breeding sites, representing 17 species in 4 genera, were collected. Among these species, there were not only those which are of great nuisance due to their biting activity but as well as species which are of great medical and veterinary importance due to their ability to transmit pathogens. The presence of important malaria vector such as Anopheles stephensi, An. dthali, An.superpictus An. Fluviatilis in this area where malaria is still the major public health problem, is of great importance. Also presence of species such as Culex univittatus, Cx. bitaenior hynchus, Cx. tritaeniorhynchus and Aedes caspius can have great consequences due to their role in transmitting arboviriuses present in the area or those brought in by migrating birds, flying from Africa. As a result, any kind of change in species composition, population density, spatial distribution, and mosquito behavior taking place due to the construction and utilization of the Minab Dam can have a major health impact on the human population living in that area and only well planned studies, preferably started before utilization of the Dam, would prevent the possible health hazards associated with it.
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Over a three years period, from March1977 to Feb. 1979, a total of 821 women receiving oral contraceptive from Ibn-E-Sina clinic were studied. The continuation rate, using the life table method, was calculated to be 75% by the end of the first year, and 51% by the end of the second year. Amongst the various reasons for termination, non medical reasons were the most important ones and were equal to 20% by the end of the first year and 38.5% by the end of the second year. These results indicate that unnecessary terminations might be reduced by health education and extensive follow up of the users.
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In order to determine the hygiene indices of bathing water, and it's water quality, a survey and laboratory analysis was recently undertaken on 34 outdoor public swimming pools out of a total 126 in Tehran metropolitan area according to simple random sampling without replacement. This survey revealed remarkable evidence of waver bacterial contamination at heavy bather load time. Examined water samples from pools failed to show the presence of any common enteric viruses, but bacteria especially Pseudeomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and E.coli were isolated from 76, 21 and 35 percent of samples respectively. Bacterial indices of 1100 Faecal Coliform by MPN were detected in 21 percent out of cases, results were obtained when the residual chlorine content of the pool ranged from 0.05 to Zero ppm. 21 percent out of the total public swimming pools under the study do not use any disinfecting agents and nine pools did not use any treatment. Chemical analyses of swimming pools indicated obvious degree of pollution, for instance residual chlorine level ranged from zero to 0.6 ppm while Ammonia Nitrogen ranged from 0.12 to 1.32 ppm as N and chloride ranged from 25 to 430 ppm as Cl- .
