Population health and burden of disease profile of iran among 20 countries in the region: From Afghanistan to Qatar and Lebanon

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 336-342

  Shahraz, Saeid ^a   Forouzanfar, Mohammad Hossein ^b   Sepanlou, Sadaf G ^b   Dicker, Daniel ^b   Naghavi, Paria ^b   Pourmalek, Farshad ^c   Mokdad, Ali ^b   Lozano, Rafael ^b   Vos, Theo ^b   Asadi Lari, Mohsen ^d   Sayyari, Ali Akbar ^d   Murray, Christopher J L ^b   Naghavi, Mohsen ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION   (Iran)

Author keywords

Epidemiological profile; Global burden of disease (GBD); Middle east; Persian gulf

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HUMAN; IRAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN DEATH; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; AGED; COST OF ILLNESS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COST OF ILLNESS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IRAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MORTALITY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84899850940     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: 17353947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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