background: different measures of mortality and morbidity statistics is a good tool in determining the health status of a community،the health network development and application of methods of prevention and treatment. basis of mortality data is the death certificate and the most important index in death certificate is accuracy of death causes with who standards and death causes codes in icd10....

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: death-related information is source for identifying the health prerequisites and formulating the related programs. due to importance of data for decision making, evaluation of it to determine the rate of documentation and errors is necessary. methods: in this descriptive, cross-sectional study, all issued cer...

death is one of the main issues in samih ghasem works; because he paid special attention to it in his works. the present paper studies his ideologies about death as well as his motivations on expressing this issue. his aesthetic view strengthens resistance spirit in his hometown fellows and causes changing in their view point on death. this article has been done in descriptive – analytic method...

introduction: accurate documentation of the cause of death is critical for health care planning. in this study, the most important causes of death registered on death certificates and the most important issues preventing accurate registration and access to death information in the town of rafsanjan were surveyed. methods: this was a descriptive study. all death certificates (totally 1197) issue...

introduction: level of mothers’ literacy, pregnancy history of more than four times, residence in villages, lack of receiving intensive care during pregnancy, as well as inaccessibility to obstetric emergency services have been reported, in iran and the world, as major factors for maternal mortality. considering significance of identifying indirect causes of maternal mortalities, the present st...

introduction: population-based mortality statistics are derived from the information recorded on death certificates. this information is used for many important purposes, such as development of public health programs and allocation of health care resources. therefore, the accuracy of death certificate data is important. the aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of death certificates rec...

background: hypertension is one of the most important determinants of death due to vascular damage and is fast emerging as a high burden disease in india. however, its documentation is poor in the country. this study aims to estimate the rate and the causal pattern of mortality in a cohort of people with high blood pressure as compared to normotensives. methods: the study setting is varkkala, a...

background: avoidable mortality (am) is one of the most important health indicators (hi) and represents the quality of care in a hospital.objective: this study measured the efficacy of a training program for a hospital healthcare staff to reduce am.methods: this epidemiological study on community intervention analyzed time-series data on hi by semesters from 2008 to 2015. the pre-intervention p...

introduction: incidence of sudden cardiac death (scd) has been steadily increasing all over the world. while knowing the cause of scd is one of the favorites of the physicians involved with these cases, it is very difficult and challenging task for the forensic physician. the present report is a prospective study regarding cause of scds on autopsy examination in four-year period, bangalore, ind...