Background Avoidable mortality as an indicator for assessing the health system performance has caught the attention of researchers for a long time. In this study we aimed to compare the health system performance using this indicator in rural and urban areas of one of Iran’s southern provinces.   Methods All deaths (29916) which happened during 2004–2011 in Bushehr province were assessed. Nolte ...

The likelihood of developing cancer during one's lifetime is approximately one in two for men and one in three for women in the United States. Cancer is the second-leading cause of death and accounts for one in every four deaths. Evidence-based policy planning and decision making by cancer researchers and public health administrators are best accomplished with up-to-date age-adjusted site-speci...

OBJECTIVE To account for variations in death rates in population subgroups of the USA. METHODS Factors associated with age-adjusted death rates in 366 metropolitan and non- metropolitan areas of the United States were examined for 1990-92. The rates ranged from 690 to 1108 per 100 000 population (mean = 885 +/- 78 per 100 000). FINDINGS Least squares regression analysis explained 71% of thi...

4 M. Petrillo, P. Cherubini, G. Fravolini, M. Marchetti, J. Ascher, M. Schärer, H.-A. Synal, D. 5 Bertoldi, F. Camin, R. Larcher, and M. Egli 6 7 Department of Geography, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland 8 WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, 8903 Birmensdorf, 9 Switzerland 10 Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland 11 D...

Caisson disease is an important condition that can be seen in diver. It is an important form of decompression illness that requires proper therapeutic management[1,2]. The problem can be sporadically seen in any coastal country. In Thailand, as a country with a long coastal line of more than one thousand kilometers, this problem can be seen. According to the recent report, this condition is an ...

Today a huge amount of children’s death rate is caused by accidents which remind us the necessity of scientific evaluation and scaling to make a basis for practical actions in this field both properly and efficiently. In National Documents and International conventions, children’s rights especially Millennium Development Goals declining the children’s death rate has been given a special attenti...

Background and aims: Stomach cancer is one of the most common cancers and the second cause of deaths among cancers worldwide cancer in the world. This study aimed to estimate the rate and trend of death from stomach cancer in Iranian population between 2006 and 2010. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional conducted using mortality data in Iranian popul...