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To determine the effect of Air Quality Index (AQI) in the first trimester of pregnancy on birth weight, placental weight, and the ratio of placental weight to the birth weight (pw-bw) in Isfahan.
This cross-sectional study was done on 312 consecutive pregnant women in Beheshti Hospital in Isfahan city in 2013. Information on air pollution was received from the Environmental department of Isfahan. Average exposure to air pollution in the first trimester of pregnancy was calculated for eachpregnant woman. In order to compare quantitative and qualitative variables, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and chi-square were applied. After that, the multiple linear regression analysis was used to assess the association the Air Quality Index (AQI) on birth weight, placental weight and the ratio of pw-bw. Potential confounders including age, baby gender, smoking of husband, maternal BMI, maternal occupation, and education and mother’s residential area were considered. A statistical significant association were considered for P-value less than 0.05.
The findings showed that there is inverse relationship between exposure to air pollution and placental weight in the first trimester of pregnancy after controlling potential confounders (β = -2.57, p-value = 0.008). The inverse relationship between air pollution and the ratio of pw-bw was found. (β = -0.001, p-value = 0.002).
The results of this study suggest that air pollution is associated with newborns’ health which in turn is a warning alarm for considering some actions in both sides of reducing the air pollution and teaching the pregnant women about the adverse effects of air pollution on the pregnancy outcomes.

The elderly population is increasingly growing toward population explosion of grandmothers. Also, their hygiene, health, comfort, and welfare are of important perspectives. Therefore, this study was conducted to compare the life satisfaction of the elderly women at home with that of women at nursing home in Kermanshah. To conduct this study, a standard questionnaire (LSIA) was distributed among 140 elderly women. Then the quantitative data were analyzed by SPSS 20. The total average of life satisfaction among women in the nursing home was 16.36 ± 5.94, whereas it was 20.86 ± 2.93 for women reside at home. The result revealed that life satisfaction of elderly women at home was significantly higher because of their social support and family affection and respect.

The elderly people a Considerable part of world populations. In this descriptive study using Counting procedure out of 201 files of hospitalized patients in infectious disease ward of Kermanshah Imam Khomeini hospital between 2010 and 2014 were studied. We studied the most common causes of infectious diseases leading to hospitalization and death rate. Data was analyzed by Spss20. Out of elderly patients were 50.7% female and 49.3% male.Death rate was 12.44%. The most Common infection and sign were pneumonia (45%) and fever (48.8%), respectively.

Job satisfaction, as the main attitude, refers to employees’ judgment toward their job and organization. This research strives to determine the level of job satisfaction among Anesthesia and Operating room staffs of Kermanshah University of Medical Science. This is a descriptive – analytical research. All staffs (n=309) working in Anesthesia and Operating room of Kermanshah University of Medical Science constitute the population of this study. Data are collected and analyzed using a self-made questionnaire and SPSS software (Version 16). the level of job satisfaction at different health and education centers were 52.4%. Job satisfaction had no significant relationship with any of the variables. The level of job satisfaction among anesthetics was more than operating room staffs. Results obtained in this study indicate that employee were in average level of job satisfaction. Thus, authorities are recommended to increase job satisfaction by reducing the causes leading to employee dissatisfaction.