Research Line:

• Research priorities of the Center for Research on Social Factors Affecting Health
  Issues related to socio-economic and cultural factors effective on health
  • Social factors determining health and justice in health indicators
  • Improving the level of public health literacy
  • Social welfare with a view to Iran's developmental program in 2025
  • Measuring the economic burden of diseases and estimating the cost of services and operational budgeting in the health care system
  • Measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of health programs (the health system and hospitals)

   

  Health Promotion Issues
  • Healthy lifestyle (physical activity, nutrition, stress, smoking) and health risk factors
  • Health promotion in the workplace (model, measurement, planning, intervention, evaluation)
  • Health system (management, priorities and evaluation of educational and health fields)
  • Determining health needs and the pattern of benefiting from health services
  • Health issues of different age groups
  • Investigating the public's perception, knowledge, awareness, attitude and practice towards diseases and health risk factors
  • Assess the level of attention of service providers to patients' rights and public health
  • Citizenship rights and its' role in promoting public health

  Issues related to diseases and injuries and disease care
  • Prevention, self-care, diagnosis, screening and rehabilitation of chronic diseases and cancers
  • Epidemiology or prevention of injuries caused by accidents, including traffic accidents, disasters and emergencies
  • Epidemiology and prevention of social harms such as violence, suicide, etc.
  • Disease burden and disease care system and health and disease indicators
  • Emerging addictions, substance abuse and drugs in different groups

   

  Topics related to education and media
  • Educating the community, individuals at risk and patients
  • Media, and virtual social networks and their role in community health

  Issues related to environmental factors and nutrition and food safety
  • Environmental health and related socio-economic and cultural challenges (geographical conditions, place of residence, climatic conditions, air pollution, toxins, etc. by examining their impact on community health)
  • Assessing the health status of food from production to consumption
  • Examining the consumption pattern of households, especially at-risk groups