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educational media has been considered to provide information and skills necessary for healthy decision-making and community h-ealth promotion. Therefore, evaluation of health education media is essential to impr-ove and promote the quality of health edu-cation. Materials & Methods: The study samples included all produced media in all Iran me-dical universities, offices, and centers affili-ated to the ministry of health during 2005 to 2010. All of the media under investigation were categorized by type and topic through software that was designed for this purpose and then, they were analyzed. Findings: Results of this study showed that 16.44% of the media produced in the com-municable diseases subject and 13.33% produced in the non-communicable subject. Pamphlet had the highest percentage of the media (34.91%) and Multimedia had the lowest percentage (0.0001%). Study findi-ngs also showed that the non-print media comprised only 6% of the mass media. Discussion & Conclusion: Given the imp-ortant role of educational media, especially new media in Increasing the knowledge and community empowerment, it is recomm-ended to paid more attention to the neces-sity of new media to inform health educa-tors.

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Pregnancy is a physiological stress and will arise as a challenge when it occurs in young adults. It has been studied on different as-pects such cultural, economic and health. Mothers, who are pregnant teenager, mostly face with the economic problems like pove-rty and unemployment. There is a negative attitude towards teenage pregnancy in the most of societies. This negative view will subsequently make adverse effects and ou-tcomes for mother and their children. In terms of health, teenage pregnancy would negatively impact both mother and embryo which these effects can be attributed to other factors such as genetics, race and nutrition in different societies

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Introduction: Leishmaniasis is endemic in 88 countries and 350 million people in world are at risk. This study was developed, conducted, and evaluated to describe and analyze the preventive behaviors of people in the endemic area of Mehran County.
 
Materials & methods: In this study, 92 people having 18⁺ years living in Mehran Township and referred to health care center No. 1 of Mehran town in 2014 were selected through convenience sampling method. Data gathering was done using a researcher-made questionnaire, which was on the basis of BASNEF model, and its reliability and validity was verified. The completed questionnaires were encoded; their data were entered into SPSS software and analyzed by chi-square, independent t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient.
 
Findings: The relationship between age, gender, marital status, education level, family income, family history of leishmaniasis, and the preventive behaviors of the respondents toward the disease were examined and no significant statistical relationship was found (P>0.05). The results of this study illustrated the importance of subjective norms in this regard. The relationship between subjective norms and variables as enabling factors(r=0.262, P<0.05), behavioral intention (r=0.282, P<0.01), and individual behavior (r=0.216, P<0.05) was statistically significant.
 
Discussion & conclusions: The most prevalent of suitable preventive behavior was relevant to remove the solid wastes in a proper way (91.3%) and least prevalence was relevant to using the mosquito nets while sleeping (5/4%).