significant advances have been made in diagnosis and therapy of demyelinating disorders of the central nervous system. the most common entities of this disorders in adults – multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica were initially thought to be different phenotypes of more or less the same disease. during the last ten years, this view was subsequently changed and the term neuromyelitis optica...

introduction: infant mortality index is an important health indicator. this index has a direct impact on infant mortality and mortality of children less than five years. the present study aimed to investigate causes of infant deaths during 2010-2011 in bandar abbas hospital of children. methods: in this cross - sectional retrospective study profiles of all dead newborns who aged from 0 to 28 da...

5.9 million children under age five died in 2015, 16 000 every day. globally, under-five mortality rate has decreased by 53%, from an estimated rate of 91 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 43 deaths per 1000 live births in 2015. the average annual rate of reduction in under-five mortality has accelerated from 1.8%  a year over the period 1990–2000 to 3.9%  for 2000–2015 , but remains insuf...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with mortality in children under 5 years of age using a nationally representative sample of singleton births for the period of 2004-2011. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Pooled 2004, 2007 and 2011 cross-sectional data sets of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys were analysed. The surveys used a stratified two-stage ...

Background: Five-year survival is an important metric for progress in cancer control broadly used both in the cancer literature and by the public. In order to assess its validity and relation to other common metrics, we analyzed the relationship between 5-year survival, incidence and mortality using publicly available cancer registry data from England and Wales. Methods: Five-year survival, inc...

OBJECTIVES This is a population based descriptive study that examined the trends in childhood mortality among under five children and the major causes under five mortality in Zhejiang Province, China. METHODS A population-based survey was conducted through a province-level surveillance network. The mortality rate and leading causes of death for children under 5 years of age were analyzed. The...

Under-five mortality rate is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five, if current age-specific mortality rates be continued. Under-5 mortality, a Millennium Development Goal indicator, is a leading indicator of child health and overall development. This indicator measures child survival. It also, reflects the social, economic and environmental conditions i...

background: in the past three decades, tehran has experienced warmer summer so we need to determine heat-related mortality to establish appropriate public health activities during hot summers. the aim of the present study was to detect heat waves during the last decades and then determine excess mortality in immediate and lagged times. method: an ecological study based on time-series model was ...

Due to the inaccessibility of households improved drinking water and safe sanitation, Afghan children die at early age childhood. This study provides empirical evidence examine causal effect unsafe poor sanitation on under 5-year mortality in Afghanistan. To testify relationship between household’s environment sources five-year mortality, categorized into neonatal, infant, ages. The binary logi...