the article provides the analysis of death rates in road traffic accidents in kazakhstan from 2004 to 2010 and explores the use of sanitary aviation.data of fatalities caused by road traffic accidents were collected and analysed. descriptive and analytical methods of epidemiology and biomedical statistics were applied.totaly 27,003 people died as a result of road traffic accidents in this perio...

background :reduction of neonatal mortality rate can improve health and newborn status of the society. this study was done to evaluate the prevalence and patternof causes for neonatal mortality in gorgan, north of iran. methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out on all birth in the maternity dezyani hospital in gorgan, north of iran during 1 september 2008 -31 march 2011 ....

objective: data on national rates of suicide is limited in iran, preventing an action plan for health scope of suicide prevention. the current brief study was conducted to review available national published data on suicide and to interpret the probable discrepancies. method: we evaluated all 20-year recent published original articles on committed suicides searching iranian scientific databases...

background: in iran, methadone has been used for methadone maintenance treatment (mmt) as well as analgesic treatment in pain clinics. recently, there are some reports regarding accidental and intentional methadone poisonings and deaths. the aim of this study was to evaluate the trend of methadone poisonings and deaths during a 10-year period in tehran, iran. methods: this was a retrospective c...