The burden of disease and injury in Iran 2003

doi:10.1186/1478-7954-7-9

Population Health Metrics

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The burden of disease and injury in Iran 2003

Mohsen Naghavi¹^,2 , Farid Abolhassani³ , Farshad Pourmalek⁴^,5 , Maziar Moradi Lakeh⁶ , Nahid Jafari¹ , Sanaz Vaseghi¹ , Niloufar Mahdavi Hezaveh⁷^,8 and Hossein Kazemeini¹

¹Health Programs Management Bureau, Health Network Development Center, Health Deputy, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Hafez Jomhouri Crossroad, Tehran, Iran

²Currently Associate Professor of Global Health, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

³Internal Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Keshavarz Boulevard, Tehran, Iran

⁴Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, Faculty of Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Keshavarz Boulevard, Tehran, Iran

⁵ Currently Post-Graduate Fellow in Global Health, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

⁶Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Hemmat Expressway, Tehran, Iran

⁷Psychosocial Health Bureau, Mental Health Department, Health Deputy, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Hafez Jomhouri Crossroad, Tehran, Iran

⁸Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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Population Health Metrics 2009, 7:9doi:10.1186/1478-7954-7-9


Published:	15 June 2009

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Mortality rates in 100'000 population by age, sex, and cause; Iran, 2003. Detailed tabulations of deaths, YLL, YLD, and DALYs for the 213 causes included in Iranian National Burden of Disease study, classified by GBD and ICD groups, age, and gender.

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Disability weights from the GBD and Dutch studies and weights developed by the Iranian national burden of disease study team. Disability weights for all causes in Iranian National Burden of Disease study. The top eleven disease and injury causes with the highest DALY rates by age groups in both sexes.

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Detailed comparison of Iranian National Burden of Disease study results with WHO's estimations for EMR-B 2002. We compared Iran's NBD study results with WHO estimates for 2002. Here we describe the differences and conclude about the reasons for their existence.

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