normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: death-related information is source for identifying the health prerequisites and formulating the related programs. due to importance of data for decision making, evaluation of it to determine the rate of documentation and errors is necessary. methods: in this descriptive, cross-sectional study, all issued cer...

background: investigation of tuberculosis (tb)-specific indices including prevalence of tb, mortality of tb cases excluding hiv, hiv/tb mortality, incidence of tb (all forms), hiv/tb incidence as well as case detection and related trends is a crucial step in evaluation of program performance and strategies success. besides, estimating the number and time of change points for tb incidence can he...

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 ...

A survey on opium use was earned out in Tinsukia district of upper Assam to assess the present prevalence and pattern of opium abuse and compared with earlier findings of the year 1981 (Baruah et al., 1995). A total of 75 addicts could be detected during the survey and 61 were interviewed using structured questionnaire. The results indicate significant decline in prevalence in opium use over th...

Background and aims: Bladder cancer is the most common tumor of the urinary tract and the ninth cancer in terms of incidence in both sexes in the world. Bladder cancer is the second most common cancer among men in Iran. The most important risk factors which attribute to the incidence of bladder cancer are tobacco usage, exposure to industrial materials, and chronic infection by Schistsoma. This...