AIM To study the trend of hepatocellular carcinoma incidence after correcting the misclassification in registering cancer incidence across Iranian provinces in cancer registry data. METHODS Incidence data of hepatocellular carcinoma were extracted from Iranian annual of national cancer registration reports 2004 to 2008. A Bayesian method was implemented to estimate the rate of misclassificati...

BACKGROUND Among the available data provided by health information systems, data on mortality are commonly used not only as health indicators but also as socioeconomic development indices. Recognizing that in Iran accurate data on causes of death were not available, the Deputy of Health in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOH&ME) established a new comprehensive system for death reg...

AIM To correct the misclassification in registered gastric cancer incidence across Iranian provinces in cancer registry data. METHODS Gastric cancer data is extracted from Iranian annual of national cancer registration report 2008. A Bayesian method with beta prior is implemented to estimate the rate of misclassification in registering patient's permanent residence in neighboring province. Ea...

BACKGROUND A two year seroepidemiological study was designed to find out the seroprevalence and risk factors of canine visceral leishmaniasis (CVL) among stray and owned dogs in Tehran and Alborz Provinces of Iran. METHODS Blood samples of 602 dogs living in 11 counties of Tehran and Alborz Provinces were taken by venipuncture in 2008-2010. After separation of blood sera, anti-leishmanial ant...

Background: Among the available data provided by health information systems, data on mortality are commonly used not only as health indicators but also as socioeconomic development indices. Recognizing that in Iran accurate data on causes of death were not available, the Deputy of Health in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOH&ME) established a new comprehensive system for death re...

BACKGROUND Network scale-up is an indirect method for estimating the size of hidden, hard-to-count or high risk populations. Social network size estimation is the first step in this method. The present study was conducted with the purpose of estimating the social network size of the Tehran Province residents and its determinants. METHODS Maximum Likelihood Estimation was applied to estimate p...

I. Mahdavi, Department of Industrial Engineering, Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran M. M. Paydar, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran M. Solimanpur, Faculty of Engineering, Urmia University, Urmia, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran M. Saidi-Mehrabad, Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and causes of blindness and low vision selected population at Tehran province, Iran in 2006. METHODS A population-based cross-sectional study was conducted in the rural and urban population of Tehran province, Iran. The study design was based on the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria and a pilot study. Multi-stage cluster random sampling method was ...

Objective-To assess the effect of lameness on culling of dairy cows in Tehran province. DesignHistorical cohort study. Study population and procedures7067 firstand second-parity Holstein dairy cows that calved from March, 21 2007 to March, 2

BACKGROUND One of the main indexes of development is health index or the degree to which a society enjoys health and therapeutic services. The present study was done with the aim to analyze development levels in cities in Tehran regarding health infrastructural index using the standardized score and Morris' model. METHODS This is a descriptive and pragmatic study which ranks 14 cities in Tehr...