background: this study uses data of the global burden of diseases (gbd) study 2010 to report death, disability-adjusted life year (dalys), years of life lived with disability (ylds) and years of life lost due to premature mortality (ylls), attributed to suboptimal breastfeeding by age and gender during 1990 to 2010 in iran. materials and methods:the gbd assessments were used, together with esti...

background: water, sanitation and hygiene have a very important role in public health. poor sanitation is the cause of water contamination, which causes many types of diseases. the aim of this paper was to present the attributable death and disability adjusted life year (dalys) of untreated water and insanitary environments from 1990 to 2010 in iran.   methods: in the global burden of disease 2...

background: water, sanitation and hygiene have a very important role in public health. poor sanitation is the cause of water contamination, which causes many types of diseases. the aim of this paper was to present the attributable death and disability adjusted life year (dalys) of untreated water and insanitary environments from 1990 to 2010 in iran.   methods: in the global burden of disease 2...

objective: to determine the patterns,complications and casualties of road traffic accidents in north west of iran during 2013 new year holidays. m e t h od s : one hundred and eighty one patients with trauma-related vehicle crashes were investigated in a cross sectional-descriptive study. we only included those road traffic accidents which were recorded during the 2013 iranian new year holidays...

Background The measurement of health benefits is a key issue in health economic evaluations. There is very scarce empirical literature exploring the differences of using quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) or disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) as benefit metrics and their potential impact in decision-making.   Methods Two previously published models delivering outputs in QALYs, were adapted...

background: maintenace and promotion of health are the duties of governments. for suitable resource allocation decisions in health sector, we need measures that combine information on mortality and non-fatal health outcomes. disability adjusted life years (dalys) have above mentioned features.  breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women. it is the first cause of death in 40-44 years ol...

objectives : to estimate the disabled-adjusted life years ( dalys) of road traffic accidents in patients referred to hospitals in yazd province, central iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in yazd province during 2010. to calculate the years of life lost (yll) due to premature death and to calculate the incidence of non-fatal injuries and years lost due to disability (yld), ...