Background: infant mortality rate is one of the main health indicators for assessing the health system’s performance over the world. We aim to examine the socioeconomic and health system factors affect infant mortality in OPEC from 2004 to 2013. Methods: was used to examine the effects of some of the key explanatory factors (total fertility rate per women, GDP per capita (current US$), public h...

conclusions human development index is one of the best indicators and predictors to perceive healthcare inequities. worldwide improvement of these indicators, especially the education level, might promote infant life expectancy and decrease infant mortality. background infant mortality rate (per 1000 live births) is a vital index to monitor the standard of health and social inequality which is ...

Background Infant mortality rate is widely used to assessing the health status of population in both developing and developed countries. The aim of this study was to identify the main factors affect infant mortality rate in ECO countries for the years 2005 to 2012. Methods A panel data model from ECO countries from 2005 to 2012 used to identify the some of key explanatory variables (GDP per cap...

This study examined the effect of a brief psycho-educational program, Time Together, on maternal self-efficacy, mother-infant bonding, and mood/anxiety for community-based mothers. program centered voice, timing interplay, recognition infant cues. A convergent parallel mixed-methods design included quantitative measures: Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale, Mother-Infant Bonding Edinburgh Postn...

sarah was  a 22 year old woman who passing her first pregnancy.  the  pregnancy was unplanned and random and she did not know her last menstrual history. he was visited at home by a midwife community health. no important problem was found in his medical history but he was  smoking 20 cigarettes daily . it was noteworthy that saeed ,his wife, had transient neonatal diabetes history. although sar...

introduction group a β-hemolytic streptococcus is the most common cause of bacterial pharyngitis among 5 - 15-year-old children, but it is uncommon in children less than three years old and rarely happens in infants less than one year old. case presentation the patient was a 62-day-old female infant who presented with fever and poor feeding since two days before admission. at the time of admiss...

abstract background histologically confirmed meningiomas in first year of life are quite rare. however, review of the sporadic cases in the literature reported meningioma in infants. those have unique features in common. case presentation an 11 month-old iranian male infant presented with a several weeks history of decrease in movement of his right sided upper and lower extremities. brain mri r...

introduction infantile colic is somehow believed to be the worst pain a baby has thus experienced. it is usually manifested as an acute abdominal pain with intense spasmodic cramping accompanied by intense crying lasting for more than 3 hours a day during at least a three days period. accordingly, this study is aimed to investigate the effects of fumaria on such pain in 3-16 weeks-old infants. ...

a nine month old infant was taken to a rural medical center due to hematemesis and melena. the bleeding persisted in spite of active management with gastric lavage, intravenous cimetidine, antiacid therapy and blood transfusion for four days' duration. the patient was referred to our center for further evaluation and management. on arrival he was pale and ill looking with active bleeding f...

acute appendicitis is a common occurrence in childhood, but this diagnosis is considered rarely in differential diagnosis of acute abdomen in the neonatal period because its occurrence is very rare in neonates. we report a 20-day- old afghan female baby that was admitted to neonatal intensive care unit, because of irritability and abdominal distension. complete ultrasound of abdomen and pelvis ...