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The psychological effects and mental health issues in natural disaster is one of the most important affairs which have got less attention. There have been a great amount of health and social policies confronting with these physicaly and financially problems. This selection deals with the importance 'of mental health in natural disasters and the lack of psychiatrits psychologists and counselors skillful in these fields. International and domestic researches, observation results in different earthquake areas and performng clinical interviews, all together result in inevitable harms to minds and feelings in natural disasters. It is obvious that the presence ol' officials, psychologists psychiatrits, and social workers will be of great advantage in face to face speaking with and providing supports for persons afflicted by natural disasters.

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After the war, the high rate of suicide raised a concern among the researches and health officials, this research is done to examine the procedure of changes happened in this regard which took about 8 years. We used the total number of those who practiced suiciding in 1373-1380, statistically recorded in Ilam. To recognize and form a quotation we followed the time curve that represented two increasing trends in these years. Significant findings were reported such as: 1- the rate of practicing of suiciding was always higher than the suiciding commitment. 2- Most of those who committed suiciding were women than men. 3- Number of villagers took part in suiciding was higher than city alwellers 4- singles showed a higher rate than married. 5- Even it was bigger among those who were jobless, homeless and uneducated. 6- The average age is 24.22 who think about suiciding and 26.67 of those who committed it, and 7- this problem happened mostly in ordibehesht, mordad and shahrivar, khordad and tir. 8- The most common way of suiciding was taking pills or poisons 9- most of the victims lived in small towns such as Abdanan and Dareh shahr and less were in Ilam, Dehloran. 10- The tendency of suiciding was more in Iran and Dareh shahr and less in Dehloran and Mehran.

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Objectives: This study revealed mental hospitals problems based on view point of their managers and analyzed etiology and its consequences. Method: Delphi method, which is a mean of systematicall data collecting and refining information provided by a group of selected experts, was conducted. Findings: The majority of the problems in the mental hospitals were due to self- management procedure, lack of enough budget and irrational fees. In one hand mental patients and their families don’t have sufficient income to pay the expenses of these hospitals and on the other hand facilities for improvement of patients social, occupational and rehabilitation capabilities are inadequate. Coverage of insurance for mental patients is incomplete and lack of proper socio- economic supports due to negative attitudes toward them are a many other problems. There are no administrative structures for standardization of mental hospitals and most of the mental hospitals buildings are dilapiodated and without enough space for patients. Conclusion: Based on Complicated problems of mental hospitals and increasing needs of mental patients to health care and treatment services, it is the time to change the structure and budgetary of psychiatric centers in Iran.