background: this cross-sectional study was conducted to compare the cost-effectiveness of three therapeutic methods of long-term hemodialysis, kidney transplant from a living person and kidney transplant from a cadaver utilizing disability adjusted life years (daly) using data from the records of patients referred to afzalipour hospital of kerman in 2012.   methods: this cross-sectional study u...

author(s): forouzanfar mh, (md, phd) mohammad k, (phd) majdzadeh r, (phd) malekzadeh r, (md) abolhasani f, (md) mohammadnejad m, (md) holakouie naeini k, (phd) hosseini m, (phd) naghavi m, (phd). introduction: hepatitis b is a common problem in many countries. due to high efficacy, safety and low cost of vaccine, mass immunization has become a favorite strategy to improve population health. in ...

People with intellectual disability have significantly higher age-adjusted rates of mortality and morbidity than their non-disabled peers. While self-rated health status is commonly used as an indicator of the health status of populations of interest, few studies have explored the self-rated health of adults with intellectual disability. We undertook secondary analysis of de-identified cross-se...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Disability-adjusted life year (DALY) metric reflects years of healthy life lost because of living with disability and years of life lost because of premature mortality. Widely used in epidemiological analyses, DALY has not been applied to acute stroke trials. METHODS From previous studies, we derived, for each modified Rankin Scale level, disability weights, disability-...

An increase in the number of older adults may raise the demand for health and care services, whereas decreasing prevalence of disability and functional limitations among them might counteract this demographic effect. However, the trends in health are inconsistent between studies and countries. In this article, we estimated the trends in mild disability and functional limitations among older Nor...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the change in incidence rates of road traffic disabilities from 1980 to 2005 in China. METHODS We employed the 2006 China National Sample Survey on Disability to derive weighted number of persons with disabilities resulting from road crashes and weighted age-gender-specific population at risk by disability occurrence year. The annual incidence rate of road traffic disabi...