BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. Population-based cancer registration data from the National Central Cancer Registry were used to analyze and evaluate the incidence and mortality rates in China in 2013, providing scientific information for cancer prevention and control. METHODS Pooled data were stratified by area (urban/rural), gender, and age group. National ne...

AIM To evaluate the impact of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act on maternal morbidity and mortality in the west of Pretoria. SETTING Indigent South Africans managed in two public hospitals in the west of Pretoria. METHOD Data were collected on all abortions (incomplete or induced) treated in the hospitals in the study area in 1997-1998 and 2003-2005. All cases of severe acute mater...

OBJECTIVE To establish mortality from pandemic A/H1N1 2009 influenza up to 8 November 2009. DESIGN Investigation of all reported deaths related to pandemic A/H1N1 in England. SETTING Mandatory reporting systems established in acute hospitals and primary care. PARTICIPANTS Physicians responsible for the patient. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Numbers of deaths from influenza combined with mid-ran...

OBJECTIVE The burden of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) illness is not well characterised in primary care. We estimated the burden of disease attributable to RSV in children in the UK between 1995 and 2009. DESIGN Time-series regression modelling. SETTING A multiple linear regression model based on weekly viral surveillance (RSV and influenza, Public Health England), and controlled for no...

objective: data on national rates of suicide is limited in iran, preventing an action plan for health scope of suicide prevention. the current brief study was conducted to review available national published data on suicide and to interpret the probable discrepancies. method: we evaluated all 20-year recent published original articles on committed suicides searching iranian scientific databases...

BACKGROUND The wide use of highly active antiretroviral therapy has led to an impressive improvement in AIDS survival after the mid-1990s in cities and countries with a high access to these medications. Notwithstanding its beneficial overall effect, antiretroviral therapy was also reported as a factor for the increase in socioeconomic inequalities in health, because AIDS patients have unequal a...

Cancer causes 14% of all deaths in Jordan. This paper presents the incidence of cancer in Jordan from 1996 to 2005. Over the 10-year period there were 33 661 cases of cancer. The average crude incidence rate was 66.2 per 100 000 for males and 70.0 per 100 000 for females (age-standardized rates: 119 per 100 000 adult males and 116 per 100 000 adult females). The 5 most frequently reported cance...

This descriptive study was done using official data on mortality from cirrhosis of the liver for the year 1989. Its objectives are: (a) to describe mortality from cirrhosis of the liver in Brazilian adults; (b) to estimate the productive years of life lost (PYLL) prematurely (between 20 and 59 years of age) from this cause; and (c) to show any regional differences in cirrhosis mortality or PYLL...

BACKGROUND Neglected Tropical Diseases are a set of communicable diseases that affect the population so low socioeconomic status, particularly 1.4 billion people who are living below the poverty level. This study has investigated the magnitude and mortality time trends for these diseases in the state of Sergipe, Northeast Region of Brazil. METHODS We conducted an ecological study of time seri...

Numbers of caesarean sections, inguinal hernia repairs, and operations for strangulated hernia performed in 1979-81 at 10 rural hospitals in eastern Africa were matched against estimated populations in the respective catchment areas. Annual rates of each operation varied considerably between hospitals, the averages being: for caesarean sections 25 per 100 000 per year; for inguinal hernia repai...