objectives : to estimate the disabled-adjusted life years ( dalys) of road traffic accidents in patients referred to hospitals in yazd province, central iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in yazd province during 2010. to calculate the years of life lost (yll) due to premature death and to calculate the incidence of non-fatal injuries and years lost due to disability (yld), ...

 Introduction: Causes of death vary globally, and they depend regionally on lifestyle and socio-cultural factors. The purpose of this study was to determine accident-related mortality in Southern Khorasan Province, Iran, in the year 2010.  Methods: This descriptive-analytical study involved all the death cases in the year 2010 in Southern Khorasan. The data were collected from the death regi...

backgroundthe years of life lost (yll) due to cancer can be a more illustrative index. to promote preventive and therapeutic services, this study aimed to investigate the childhood cancer mortality and its trend over the past few years in yazd to provide planners with baseline data. material and method data obtained from death registration system of the healthcare center were used to calculate ...

background & aim: fear of death can cause death anxiety for everyone. in health care professions, death anxiety becomes a routine source of stress and may lead to unwanted consequences. coping strategies of nurses and different approaches to death can affect the quality of health care services. the aim of this study was to determine attitudes toward death in nursing staff in hospitals of rafsan...

background and aims: there are different causes for brain death including head trauma, cerebrovascular accidents and intracranial space-occupying lesions. the present study was aimed to determine the causes of brain death in chahar mahal and bakhtiari province due to high turnover of trauma in this area during 2003 to 2013. methods: this study was based on routine data and was conducted on all ...