INTRODUCTION Reducing inequalities in health care is one of the main challenges in all countries. In Iran as in other oil-exporting upper middle income countries, we expected to witness fewer inequalities especially in the health sector with the increase in governmental revenues. METHODS This study presents an inequalities assessment of health care expenditures in Iran. We used data from the ...

BACKGROUND The Years of Life Lost (YLL) due to cancer can be a more illustrative index to promote preventive and therapeutic services, this study aimed to investigate the childhood cancer mortality and its trend over the past few years in Yazd to provide planners with baseline data. MATERIAL AND METHOD Data obtained from death registration system of the healthcare center were used to calculat...

BACKGROUND Elimination of suicide attempts is impossible, but they can be reduced dramatically by an organized planning. The present study aimed to survey the suicide trends in Fars province (Iran), during 2004-2009 to better understand the prevalence and status of suicide. METHODS This survey was a cross-sectional study. The demographic data were collected from the civil status registry betw...

background : poisoning is a major concern, especially in developing countries. we aimed to focus on poisoning trends based on registry data for the recent 10 years. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on registry database of imam reza hospital in mashhad, iran. all cases of toxic exposure or poisoning during 2004 to 2013 were included (49189 patients). data from two national censu...

BACKGROUND As a performance evaluating program, healthcare indicators of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the end year of the 4th five-year socioeconomic strategic plan (2008) were evaluated in comparison with the same indicators at the 1st year of the 9th government (2004). METHODS The indicators were selected with the Delphi technique among the published indicators in the two period of time ...

conclusions prognosis of patients that underwent surgery and medical therapy was significantly better than medical therapy alone (90% vs. 50% patient’s survival). results the study included 20 patients with a biopsy-proven diagnosis of mucormycosis. regarding the findings, the mean age was 51.4 ± 9.7 years. eighty-five percent of patients had uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. findings showed that...

BACKGROUND The aim of this paper was to present the incidence rates of leukemia and multiple myeloma (MM) in Golestan province located in northeastern Iran during 2004-2009. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a descriptive cross-sectional study. Data on newly diagnosed (incident) leukemia and MM cases were obtained from collected from Golestan population-based cancer registry. Data was entered in...

In the history of medicine, the human plague has been considered as one of the most terrifying fatal diseases that over centuries, killed millions of people. Three major pandemics took place between the 6th and 19th centuries, which profoundly impacted the world's socioeconomic status; however, the etiologic agent of the plague remained unknown up to the end of the 19th century. During the past...