Tabatabai SA1, Hashemi SM2, Ahmadinejad M3 1. Associate Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Esfahan University of Medical Sciences, Al –Zahra Hospital 2. Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic surgery, Esfahan University of Medical Sciences, Al –Zahra Hospital 3. Assistant Professor, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, and Resident of Thoracic Surgery, Esfahan University of Me...

PROBLEM/CONDITION Estimated trends in county-level vaccination coverage compared with national health objectives and associated with other variables (e.g., access to care, economic conditions, and demographic characteristics) have not been reported previously. REPORTING PERIOD 1995-2008. DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM The National Immunization Survey (NIS) is an ongoing, random-digit-dialed telephon...

Background: The current study aims to determine whether suicide decedents who are residents of wet counties have higher odds of alcohol involvement than suicide decedents who are residents of moist/dry counties; and determine whether the association between alcohol sale status and alcohol-related suicide exists only in counties with a high population size. Methods: Multilevel logistic regressio...

AIM To examine the association of counties' urbanization level and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita on the access to health care. METHODS Counties were divided in two groups according to the urbanization level and GDP per capita in purchasing power standards. The number of physicians per 100,000 inhabitants, the number of physicians in hospitals in four basic specialties, physicians' w...

Previous research on land elevation and cancer death rates in the U.S. revealed lower cancer death rates in higher elevations. The present study further tests the possible effect of land elevation on a diffident health outcome, namely, heart disease death rates. U.S. counties not overlapping in their land elevations according to their lowest and highest elevation points were identified. Using a...

background:although intellectual disability (id) is a common disability in iran, there is no investigation on the spatial distribution pattern of these patients in national level and the spatial maps for recognition the areas with higher prevalence of ids and local neighborhoods of these regions or effect of socio-demographic factor on this scattering is not still available. this proposition mo...

the present study was conducted to determine peak ground acceleration (pga) over bedrock in probabilistic analysis methods for the seismic hazard and uniform hazard spectra at different hazard levels for esfahan city. a series of statistics containing historical and instrumental seismic data covering from the 8th century a.d. to the now up to a radius of 200 km was employed and seismic sources ...

BACKGROUND Inequitable access to healthy food may contribute to health disparities. This study examines the relationship between the prevalence of adult diabetes and food access in the U.S. by county economic/racial composition. METHODS An ecological study from 2012 was used to estimate the relationship between diabetes and retail food outlet access. County diabetes prevalence was measured ba...