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Background: In order to achieve optimal health, every community needs collaboration between its community sectors that affect policy makers. The aim of this research was the content analysis of health-related articles in important newspapers of the Islamic republic of Iran with emphasis on health education and promotion in 2008. Methods: In this cross-sectional study we used the content analysis method. Study samples were the publication from fourteen days of ten important newspapers in Iran, 114 issues in total. Data were analyzed by SPSS software via chi-square test and P-value < 0.05 was considered as significant. Findings: Twelve newspapers had no health-related articles and the rest had 495 health-related articles. Only 2.57% of newspapers were allocated to health topics. Only 7.7% of health-related articles were published in the principal page of the newspaper, 41% of health-related articles were the fourth title and 58.7% had no pictures. Disease topics with 44.7% had the highest rate of published topics. Conclusion: Based on the low rate of health-related articles and the lack of focus on health-related topics in Iranian newspapers, it seems necessary to familiarize health experts with the capacity of media for health promotion and to take new approaches to planning media that address health issues.

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Background: Diabetes has no definite treatment. The most important treatment strategy employed to control diabetes is adherence to self-care behaviors such as special diet, physical activity, blood glucose monitoring, daily foot care, and taking the prescribed medicine. This study aimed to assess rates of adherence to different dimensions of self-care behaviors and evaluate the predicting value of each dimension on glycemic control among type 2 diabetic patients under coverage of the Diabetes Clinic of Qom University of Medical Sciences (Qom, Iran). Methods: This cross-sectional, descriptive, analytic study was conducted on 275 randomized patients. Data was collected using the Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities (SDSCA) measure, a cognitive health questionnaire, and Beck Depression Questionnaire. Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) test was also performed. Data was analyzed through bivariate correlations and multivariate linear regression in SPSS17. Findings: The final regression model introduced education level, medicine taking behavior, nutrition, physical activity, and blood glucose monitoring as the main predictors. This model accounted for 66% of the variance of HbA1c level as a glycemic control indicator (P < 0.001). Conclusion: Various dimensions of self-care behaviors of patients with type 2 diabetes have different impacts on metabolic control. Medicine taking and nutritional dimensions of self-care behaviors have the greatest effect on glycemic control.

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Background: Improving patient safety is a priority of the International common. Patient safety is a critical component to the quality of health care. The aim of this study was to assess patient safety culture among employees of health care providers, hospitals in Tehran. Methods: The survey was a cross-sectional study was done in 2010. Data were collected from all the staff groups in hospitals (n=348). A standard questionnaire from York University is used to evaluate staff Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture. This study used SPSS 16.0 to perform the statistical analysis. Findings: Results of this study showed those employees' perceptions of patient safety culture in the medium (68/8 percent) are present. A significant association between hospital type, age, level of education, occupation, and work experience, there was a culture of patient safety (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Improving patients__AWT_QUOTE__ safety culture should be a priority among hospital administrators. Meanwhile, Healthcare staff should be encouraged to report errors without fear of punishment action.