AIM To correct the misclassification in registered gastric cancer incidence across Iranian provinces in cancer registry data. METHODS Gastric cancer data is extracted from Iranian annual of national cancer registration report 2008. A Bayesian method with beta prior is implemented to estimate the rate of misclassification in registering patient's permanent residence in neighboring province. Ea...

in the last decades, pesticides have been used extensively, in order to control pests and plant diseases, but negative impacts of pesticides caused several environmental problems and put human health in danger. in order to decrease environmental hazards of pesticide, risk of pesticide application should be measured briefly and precisely. in this study environmental impacts of registered insecti...

OBJECTIVES Anaemia is an important public health problem in Iran; therefore, a programme of flour fortification with iron was launched in two pilot provinces. The present study was conducted in January 2009 to evaluate the effectiveness and process of this programme. STUDY DESIGN A 'before-and-after study' was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the flour fortification programme, and t...

AIM To define the sub site distribution of upper gastrointestinal cancers in three provinces of Iran. METHODS The study was carried out in three provinces in Iran: Ardabil, Golestan, and Tehran. In Arbabil and Golestan, the data was collected from the sole referral center for gastrointestinal cancers and the local cancer registry. For Tehran province, data from two major private hospitals wer...

Aim The aim of this study was to obtain more accurate estimates of the liver cancer incidence rate after correcting for misclassification error in cancer registry across Iranian provinces. Background Nowadays having a thorough knowledge of geographic distribution of disease incidence has become essential for identifying the influential factors on cancer incidence. Methods Data of liver canc...

In order to determine the causal agents of Fusarium head blight, during 2015–16, wheat heads with disease symptom were collected from 10 and six main wheat production areas of Golestan and Mazandaran provinces (N Iran), respectively. A total of 431 Fusarium isolates were obtained belonging to nine Fusarium species based on their morphological characteristics. Fusarium graminearum species comple...

the coastal areas of the caspian sea are geographically unique and provide habitats for different flora and fauna. one of the remarkable inhabitants of this area is the european pond turtle, emys orbicularis (linnaeus, 1758), about which very little is known. in our study thirty seven (37) adult males of e. orbicularis have been identified in the golestan, mazandaran, ardebil, and east azerbaij...

background: during the last decades, the number of dentistry units increased significantly across the country. the aim of this study was to assess the efficiency of dental units of iran provinces regarding dental health inputs and outputs using data envelopment analysis approach. methods: in this applied descriptive-analytical study, the study population included all of iran 31 provinces. the o...