OBJECTIVES To evaluate short-term effects of publishing revised lower risk national drinking guidelines on related awareness and knowledge. To examine where drinkers heard about guidelines over the same period. DESIGN Trend analysis of the Alcohol Toolkit Study, a monthly repeat cross-sectional national survey. SETTING England, November 2015 to May 2016. PARTICIPANTS A total of 11 845 adu...

background and aims: one of the most common approach to understanding spatial and temporal trends of event data is to break it up into a series of time snapshots. therefore space-time cube method applied in order to portray the likely trend in occurrence of the pulmonary tuberculosis (tb) cases. methods: in this study, information of all patients with pulmonary tb recorded in surveillance syste...

background road traffic accidents and their related deaths have become a major concern, particularly in developing countries. iran has adopted a series of policies and interventions to control the high number of accidents occurring over the past few years. in this study we used a time series model to understand the trend of accidents, and ascertain the viability of applying arima models on data...

background: considering the lack of data available on changes of physical activity over time in iran, this study was designed to evaluate changes in physical activity levels among iranian adults over a median 6.5 yr period. methods: in this population-based cohort study, 3515 participants, aged ≥ 20 yr (2100 females and 1415 males) were followed from phase ii (2002-2005) to phase iv (2008-2011)...

traffic accidents are one of the most important challenges  of public hygiene that needs global attention and effort. the recent research was conducted in order to determine the crash trend and develop the accident prediction model that leads to death in ilam from 2010 to 2014. the recent study based on descriptive analysis was performed by using the  statistical data related to death caused by...

results overall suicide mortality has increased from 10.6 per 100,000 in 2003 to 12.4 in 2014, which equals to 1.5 % (+0.1 - + 2.8) annual percentage change (apc). increase in suicide rate for women was remarkably higher than men (apc = 4.5 for women and 0.5 for men (p value < 0.001)). majority of increase belonged to age group 20 - 29 in women and 30-39 in men. old men have an increasing trend...