Background: Iran is located in Asian esophageal cancer belt, with age-standardized incidence rate (ASR) of approximately 7 per 100,000 for both men and women. To provide potential solution recommendations for achieving accurate estimations regarding the burden of the disease in Iran, we designed a study to assess the burden of esophageal cancer in Iran during 1995-2015 by collecting data from t...

In September 2015, the international community came together to agree on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a plan of action for people, the planet, and prosperity. Ambitious and far-reaching as they are, they are built on three keystones: the elimination of extreme poverty, fighting climate change, and a commitment to fighting injustice and inequality. Critical to the achievement of ...

abstract objective : the policy makers and social managers need some criteria for building up the appropriate health status of the community and observe the equity and equality on it. they have to know the burden of diseases as a main determining factor for decision making, planning and programming. disability adjusted life years (dalys) is a criteria which shows the wasted life time due to ear...

the harmful use of alcohol inflicts great deal of social and economic losses on individuals and societies. given the increase in world population and the predicted increase in alcohol consumption, the alcohol related burden of disease progressively catches higher ranks in the list of factors threatening humans' life. it has been considered that the social and economic burden related to alcohol ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the age-weighting preferences of urban Zimbabweans in relation to health care priorities. METHOD A total of 67 randomly selected residents of a high-density area of Harare participated in the study. Participants were asked "person trade-off" questions to determine their preferences in terms of the numbers of people of various ages who would be saved from death and from ...

all people need food. unsafe foods; however, may cause diseases ranging from diarrhea to cancer. chemicals in food are a worldwide health concern. in 2006, the world health organization (who) organized a consultation on the global burden of foodborne diseases. work to estimate this burden began in 2007 and was carried out by the who foodborne disease burden epidemiology reference group (ferg), ...

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Assessing the health situation in populations has traditionally been carried out on the basis of mortality data, and where available, on the prevalence and/or incidence of disease. A new approach to quantifying the burden of disease has been developed which simultaneously considers both premature death as well as the non-fatal health consequences of disease and injury. The burden of disease app...

INTRODUCTION Literature on influenza focuses on influenza A, despite influenza B having a large public health impact. The Global Influenza B Study aims to collect information on global epidemiology and burden of disease of influenza B since 2000. METHODS Twenty-six countries in the Southern (n = 5) and Northern (n = 7) hemispheres and intertropical belt (n = 14) provided virological and epide...

Children around the world are now confronting serious health risks from environmental hazards that were neither known nor suspected before. Over 40% of the global burden of disease attributed to environmental factors falls on children aged less than five years. Thousands of chemical compounds have been developed over the last 50 years. Considering economic and social development, proper actions...