S Akbarpour, N Jafari, F Mobasheri, P Pezeshkan,
Volume 7, Issue 4 (16 2012)
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Background
& Objectives: Years of life lost (YLL) was designed by the World Health
Organization (WHO) to measure and analyze the burden of various diseases.
Intentional and unintentional injuries, is the second cause of death in Iran.
Since there is little know about the burden of injuries, this study designed to
measure YLL in this group as a key indicator of population health and priority
setting in health.
Methods: Years of life lost was
calculated based on death data from Death Registration system in Mazandaran
province.
Results: During the year 1387 in
Mazandaran province, 39,421 years lost due to intentional and unintentional
injury. 30,498 years that related to men and 8923 years related to women. In
this province injury has been the first cause of YLL in both sexes and age
groups 20-24, 25-29 and 15-19 years, respectively.
Conclusion: Considering the results of this study and the high
number of years lost due to accidents in the province, especially in men, it
seems that more appropriate interventions programs for at risk age group of men
in province is required.
M Bakhtiyari, M Salehi, F Zayeri, F Mobasheri, P Yavari, A Delpishe, M Karimlou,
Volume 8, Issue 2 (20 2012)
Abstract
Background & Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify the quality of life (QOL) measures
commonly used to assess disabled people compared to healthy individuals.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 1000 disabled and
healthy individuals aged between 15 to 75 years old during 2009 year. These
groups were selected by random sampling method multistage cluster sampling from
Crescent Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center located in Tehran. WHO's Quality
of Life (WHOQOL-100) questionnaire was used to measure quality of life.
Results: The Mean age were 35.9±12.9 and 35.1±12.7 years
amongst disabled and non disabled groups, respectively. There was a significant
difference between two groups in terms of somatic health and independence of
quality of life (P<0.001), in which the mean score in both domains were high
in healthy individuals. No significant difference was observed between two
groups in other scopes.
Conclusion: Findings of this study highlighted the lower
quality of life in disabled people in Tehran, Therefore this group should be
targeted for any relevant intervention in order to improve their care.
