OBJECTIVES Infant and childhood mortality from injuries in Central and Eastern Europe is high but little is known about its determinants. This study examined whether maternal socioeconomic characteristics predict infant mortality from injuries in the Czech Republic. METHODS Data on all live births registered in the Czech Republic 1989-91 (n=387 496) were linked with the national death registe...

BACKGROUND The monitoring of the underlying causes of death in people living with HIV/AIDS is important so that actions to reduce morbidity and mortality can be taken. OBJECTIVE To describe the temporal trends of underlying causes of death among people living with HIV/AIDS between 2000 and 2007 in Brazil and to identify factors associated with it. METHODS The Mortality Information System da...

Road traffic accidents (RTA) are one of the most important causes of death and disability all over the world. In developing countries the problem is more complicated. Based on the estimation by UNICEF, rate of RTA in Iran is 20 times more than world’s average. In Iran among all unintentional fatal injuries inflicted on children under five, traffic related fatalities are the leading cause ...

Introduction: Death anxiety can negatively affect recovery among older patients. Objective: study aimed to assess death anxiety and its predictors among older adults during and after hospitalization. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2017 on 241 hospitalized patients aged ≥60 years. The study subjects were consecutively recruited from a hospi...

introduction  sudden infant death syndrome (sids) is a disease which causes unexpected death of infants aged less than 1 year. given the undeniable role of parents in the presence or absence of sids risk factors, the present study aimed to studythe prevalence and the relationship between characteristics and conditions of parent’s infants with sids risk factors. materials and methods  in this cr...

Background : With the improvement in transplant technology major organ transplantation is gradually becoming the treatment of choice in many conditions. The present study assesses the awareness of the concepts of brain death and organ transplantation among public. Methods : Six hundred thirty six select populations, which included office-goers of Delhi, class 12th school children of a reputed p...

INTRODUCTION The accuracy of death certificates is essential for public health prevention and research in the State of Louisiana. This article analyzes the accuracy of cause of death stated on Louisiana death certificates. METHODS Discharge diagnoses from 2007 Louisiana Hospital Inpatient Discharge Diagnosis (LAHIDD) data were compared with the diagnoses in the cause of death section in the c...

BACKGROUND the investigation of cognitive decline in the older population has been hampered by analytical considerations. Most studies of older people over prolonged periods suffer from loss to follow-up, yet this has seldom been investigated fully to date. Such considerations limit our understanding of how basic variables such as education can affect cognitive trajectories. METHODS we examin...