INTRODUCTION Health care providers and health policy managers need updated and valid information regarding causes of death (COD) for development the health care facilities, directing primary prevention, assigning funds, and promoting public health. The major causes of death and its burden have not been yet appropriately identified in Iran. Although several studies had been carried out in this a...

according to commonly believed in imamiyeh' s fiqh, a murder commitment made in haram months would causes an increment in blood money to one third. the increment is called taghlize diyeh, increase of blood money. the increase includes all three kinds of murder commitments, namely intentional, quasi-intentional and unintentional ones, the very meaning written down in islamic puni-shment law...

background: accidents are the second cause of death in iran and one of the significant challenges in public health. they can affect people in all ages. in this study, we try to calculate years of life lost due to intentional and unintentional injuries, which is considered as one of the main indicators for prioritizing public health problems.   methods: this study is a practical cross sectional ...

INTRODUCTION In low- and middle-income countries, injuries are a leading cause of mortality in children. Much work has been done in the context of unintentional injuries but there is limited knowledge about intentional injuries among children. The objective of this paper was to understand the characteristics of children with intentional injuries presenting to emergency departments in Pakistan. ...

Although alcohol use has been established as a risk factor for injuries associated with motor vehicle crashes, the role of alcohol for other unintentional and intentional injuries is less defined. A review of 102,401 deaths investigated by North Carolina medical examiners in the period 1973-1983 characterized the temporal patterns of ethyl alcohol in unintentional injury fatalities, suicides, h...

Injury is a leading cause of death and disability in children and adolescents worldwide. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the epidemiologic characteristics of the pediatric unintentional injuries presenting to the Korean emergency department (ED). We included unintentional injuries in patients aged < 20 yr. Data collected from January 2010 to December 2011 was extracted from ...

CONTEXT The source and ownership of guns used by children to shoot themselves or others is largely unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine the ownership and usual storage location of firearms used in unintentional and self-inflicted intentional firearm deaths and injuries. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING King County, Washington. PATIENTS Youths aged from birth to 19 years who sought m...

OBJECTIVES Strong evidence based on case record reviews indicates that the incidence of child homicide reported from death certificates is under ascertained. The characteristics of infant injury fatalities with undetermined, but suspicious, intent were compared for the probability that they should be considered homicides. METHODS Using linked birth and death certificates for all birth cohorts...