Predicting the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile of Pregnant Women Based on Their Health Literacy Levels: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Aim: Health literacy is considered as key factor to empower women to participate in self-care and child-care activities. The purpose of the present study is to determine the relationship between health-promoting behaviours and health literacy among pregnant women.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Are healthy lifestyle behaviors positively associated with the academic achievement of the university students?

Introduction: Universally, the number of students attending the university education is high and increasing. The future of academic graduates is affected by their academic achievement. The purpose of the research was to assess the correlation among academic achievement and healthy lifestyle behaviors in university students.

Structural challenges in the health domain of the health system reform: A qualitative study.

Background And Aim: Considering that the Qom University of Medical Sciences was a pioneer to implement the health system reform (HSR) in the domain of health services and the lack of a study that has addressed the challenges and strategies to promote the HSR in the health domain, this study was designed to explain the structural challenges and its solutions in the health domain of the HSR in the city of Qom, Iran, 2017.

Materials And Methods: This study was a qualitative research. The health managers, the health-care providers, and the recipients of health services referring to the health centers in Qom were the participants in this study who were selected using the convenience sampling method.

Health-Promoting Behaviors and Their Predictors in Iranian Women of Reproductive Age: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Health-promoting behaviors are one of the main determinative components of health in the prevention of many diseases. This cross-sectional study aimed to determine health-promoting behaviors and their relationship to sociodemographic variables on 330 women of reproductive age admitted to the selected primary health-care centers in Qom city (one of the biggest cities in Iran) from March 2016 to July 2016. Data were collected using the health-promoting lifestyle profile II (HPLP-II) questionnaire and the sociodemographic characteristics and also were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance, with post hoc (if necessary), and multivariable linear regression.

Social Capital as a Determinant of Self-Rated Health in Women of Reproductive Age: A Population-Based Study.

Introduction: Recognition of the factors related to women's health is necessary. Evidence is available that the social structure including social capital plays an important role in the shaping people's health. The aim of the current study was to investigate the association between self-rated health and social capital in women of reproductive age.