Background : The worldwide annual incidence of neonatal mortality has been estimated as 3.7 million. Most of these deaths occur in the first 28 days of birth and in developing countries. We aimed to estimated prevalence of different related risk factors of neonatal death.   Methods: A community based cross-sectional study was performed. A pre-tested structured questionnaire was administered a...

Introduction: Hospital mortality makes the highest proportion of all mortalities in the general population. According to the results of a national survey in Iran in 2000, over 50%, 30%, 35% and 40% of mortalities occurred respectively due to infectious diseases, cancers, cardiovascular diseases and accidents in hospital. The present study was conducted to determine the different causes of dea...