Modeling spatio-temporal variations of substance abuse mortality in Iran using a log-Gaussian Cox point process

Rostami, Mehran; Mohammadi, Younes; Jalilian, Abdollah; Nazparvar, Bashir

doi:10.1016/j.sste.2017.05.002

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“…However, the validity of these methods rely on holding assumptions such as absence of recall bias and survival biases. If these assumption do not hold, the validity and reliability of the estimates are questionable 8,10,13,18 . Unfortunately, there is no way to check these assumptions and we are forced to accept holding the assumptions.…”

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“…Death data was registered by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education and was available for 2006 to 2011. Due to problems related to underregistration and mis-registration of death data [8][9][10][11] , in addition to DRS, we used census data including summary birth history (SBH) method 12 . This method uses two questions asked from mothers aged 15 to 49 for estimating CMR.…”

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Socio-economic determinants of inequality in child mortality rate among Iranian provinces: An ecological study

Heidarimoghadam

Javaheri

Nikravesh

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Sri Lanka J Child Health

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Background: To identify the determinants of the inequality in child mortality it is vital to take interventional measures to improve survival of children. Objective:To estimate child mortality rate (CMR) for Iranian provinces and then assess the share of medical and socio-economic factors in CMR among Iranian provinces.Methods: First, we estimated CMR for Iranian provinces from several sources. Then, we extracted socio-economic status of provinces from Iranian centre of statistics. We used correlation and multivariate linear regression for assessing association of CMR with socio-economic status.Results: South Khorasan with 51 per 1000 live births and Mazandaran with 13 per 1000 live births had the highest and the lowest CMR among Iranian provinces. Correlation analysis showed that cost of health (-0.52) and literacy rate (-043) had the strongest association and the number of doctors with -0.24 had the weakest association with CMR. Results of multivariate analysis revealed that literacy rate and cost of health were statistically significant and explained about the 45% difference among Iranian provinces.Conclusions: There is inequality in child mortality among Iranian provinces. However, literacy rate, cost of health and income per capita are the most effective determinants of inequality.

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Socio-economic determinants of inequality in child mortality rate among Iranian provinces: An ecological study

Heidarimoghadam

Javaheri

Nikravesh

et al. 2018

Sri Lanka J Child Health

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“…In fact, based on the instructions of the Judicial System of Iran, the causes of deaths must be written in Persian on the death certificate issued by the forensic physicians; codes or English words not allowed to be written. In other words, the causes of deaths cannot be written in abbreviated forms by forensic physicians (4). To improve this relationship, closer cooperation between provincial health administrations and provincial forensic medicine centers is required so as to update and correct death statistics to address the underestimations of the mortality data.…”

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Differences among official statistics of mortality rates in Iran

Rostami

Nazparvar

Rezaeian

2018

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“…11-The increasing trend in drug-related mortality is predicted in females, which can be considered as an important clue to highlight substance use disorders among Iranian women (4).…”

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“…Overall, increasing access to substance use treatment services, gender-specific awareness, and focusing on highrisk age groups to highlight the risk factors of drug and alcohol use were recommended (4,5). To monitor the prevalence of various substance use (e.g., illicit drug use, alcohol consumption), repeated national population size estimation studies are recommended.…”

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