abstract background: lung cancer is an important cause of cancer mortality. mortality is a familiar projection to address the burden of cancers. however, according to iranian death registry, about 20% of death statistics were still recorded in misclassified categories. the aim of this study was to estimate lung cancer mortality in iranian population, using bayesian approach to revise this miscl...

BACKGROUND Data are lacking on mortality from chronic liver diseases of different aetiology by education level. AIMS To investigate the association between education level and mortality from alcoholic, viral, and non-viral/non-alcoholic chronic liver disease. METHODS Proportional mortality was investigated in 2011-2013 in the Veneto Region (Italy). Odds ratios were estimated by conditional ...

Background: Newborn health care starts before the birth of the baby and continues till the baby is of 28 days. Most of the newborn deaths occur in the first week of life, that’s why Child health is addressed in UN Millennium development goal-4 report, to reduce the under 5 years child death by two third by reducing the New born death by 2015. The study aimed to assess newborn care practices amo...

BACKGROUND Injury risk during childhood and adolescence vary depending on socio-economic factors. The aim of this study was to study if the risk of fatal and non-fatal unintentional injuries among foreign-born children was similar across parental educational level or not. METHODS In this retrospective cohort study we followed 907,335 children between 1961 and 2007 in Sweden. We established th...

INTRODUCTION Since no hospital-based, nationwide study has been yet conducted on the association between risk factors and in-hospital mortality due to myocardial infarction (MI) by educational level in Iran, the present study was conducted to investigate relationship between risk factors and in-hospital mortality due to MI by educational level. METHODS In this nationwide hospital-based, prosp...

Background Lifelong learning is an expectation in the professional performance of nurses, which is directly related to the success of students in nursing schools. In spite of the considerable attention paid to this issue, lifelong learning strategies are not fully understood. Objective The aim of this study was to clarify lifelong learning strategies of nursing students with respect to intern...

BACKGROUND Research in medical education has been paid more attention than before; however the quality of research reporting has not been comprehensively appraised. To evaluate the methodological and reporting quality of Iranian published medical education articles. METHODS Articles describing medical students, residents, fellows or program evaluation were included. Articles related to contin...