Bigdeli et al. BMC Public Health 2010, 10:406 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/406 Author details 1Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Islamic Republic of Iran. 2Division of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Norrbacka, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden. Authors’ contributions MB has made substantial contributions to the conception and design of the study, and has taken responsibility for and coordinated the acquisition of data, which she gathered and analyzed. She took an active part in the analysis of the data, in its abstraction and in the writing-up of the manuscript. DKZ contributed to the conception and design of the study, data collection process and took an active part in the data analysis and results interpretation and writing-up the manuscript. RM also took part in the writing-up and finalization of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. 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