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Cost-effectiveness of pretreatment HIV drug resistance testing in people living with HIV in Iran Open

Hossein Mirzaei, Abedin Iranpour, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Mohsen Barouni, Fatemeh Mehrabi , et al. · 2024

Introduction HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) is an important challenge in the fight against HIV/AIDS and can threaten progress toward achieving the target of HIV elimination by 2030. Genotyping pretreatment HIVDR testing (DRT) has been propose…

Correction to: Budget impact analyses for treatment of heart failure. A systematic review Open

Abedin Teimourizad, Abdosaleh Jafari, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh · 2024

Review of: "Financial Repercussions of Carbon Emissions and Depletion of Natural Resources: The Role of Fiscal Policy in Determining Health Expenditures" Open

Firooz Esmaeilzadeh · 2023

The structure of the abstract needs correction.The type of study, the method used and the results are ambiguous.

Performance of discrete wavelet transform‐based method in the detection of influenza outbreaks in Iran: An ecological study Open

Sara Minaeian, Yousef Alimohamadi, Babak Eshrati, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh · 2023

Background and Aim Timely detection of outbreaks is one of the main purposes of the health surveillance system. The presence of appropriate methods in the detection of outbreaks can have an important role in the timely detection of outbrea…

Global mortality of snakebite envenoming between 1990 and 2019 Open

Nicholas L S Roberts, Emily K. Johnson, Scott Zeng, Erin B Hamilton, Amir Abdoli , et al. · 2022

Estimate of the Basic Reproduction Number for Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Open

Yousef Alimohamadi, Mojtaba Sepandi, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh · 2022

Introduction: An essential concept in assessing the extent to which an infectious outbreak spread is the concept of basic reproductive number (R0 ). The current systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to estimate the R0 of the Delta vari…

Prevalence of Syphilis Infections among the Iranian Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Open

Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Masoud Mohammadi, Abolfazl Amjadipour, Alireza Jafari, Mousa Ghelichi-Ghojogh , et al. · 2022

Background: Syphilis is one of the most important sexually transmitted infections (STI) and a public health problem, but the literature describing the true burden of syphilis is limited. In Iran, there are no accurate results on the preval…

Health system performance in Iran: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 Open

Farshad Farzadfar, Mohsen Naghavi, Sadaf G Sepanlou, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam, William James Dangel , et al. · 2022

Mortality from snakebite envenomation: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 Open

Nicholas L S Roberts, Emily K. Johnson, Scott Zeng, Erin B Hamilton, Amir Abdoli , et al. · 2021

Venomous snakebite is an important cause of preventable death. The World Health Organization (WHO) set a goal to halve snakebite mortality by 2030. We used verbal autopsy and vital registration data to model the proportion of venomous anim…

Major Thalassemia, Screening or Treatment: An Economic Evaluation Study in Iran Open

Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Batoul Ahmadi, Sajad Vahedi, Saeed Barzegari, Abdolhalim Rajabi · 2021

Background: Beta-thalassemia minor and thalassemia major are an autosomal recessive disease with hypochromic, microcytic anemia, and morbidities, Today, therapeutic advances have significantly improved the life expectancy of thalassemia ma…

The comparing of infant mortality rate in different World Health Organization regions during 1990–2017 Open

Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Yousef Alimohamadi, Mojtaba Sepandi, Farzad Khodamoradi, Parisa Jalali · 2021

Utilization of dental care in Iranian pregnant women Open

Donya Rahebi, Tannaz Valadbeigi, Jalil Hasani, Mahmoud Hajipour, Saeed Erfanpoor , et al. · 2021

Background: Although dental care attendance during pregnancy has been recommended by guidelines and institutions, the demand for dental services is still low among pregnant women. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of not …

Evaluation the Performance of Exponentially Weighted Moving Average in the Detection of Cholera Outbreaks: Using the Reported Cholera Outbreaks in Literature Open

Yousef Alimohamadi, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Parisa Jalali, Mohsen Mohammadi, Mojtaba Sepandi · 2020

Introduction: Timely Detection of outbreaks of infectious diseases can have a very important role in surveillance systems. the presence of appropriate methods can have a very important role for this purpose, the aim of the current study wa…

The prevalence of depression among Iranian infertile couples: an update systematic review and meta-analysis Open

Yousef Alimohamadi, Ahmad Mehri, Mojtaba Sepandi, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Roya Rashti · 2020

Health sector spending and spending on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and development assistance for health: progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3 Open

Angela E Micah, Yanfang Su, Steven D Bachmeier, Abigail Chapin, Ian Cogswell , et al. · 2020

The global, regional, and national burden of colorectal cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 Open

Saeid Safiri, Sadaf G Sepanlou, Kevin S Ikuta, Catherine Bisignano, Hamideh Salimzadeh , et al. · 2019

Decomposition of Socioeconomic Inequality in Catastrophic Health Expenditure: An Evidence from Iran Open

Sajad Vahedi, Aziz Rezapour, Farzad Faraji Khiavi, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Javad Javan‐Noughabi , et al. · 2019

Association of Gross Domestic Product with Under-Five Mortality Rate and Life Expectancy During 1990 - 2015 in Iran: An Ecological Study Open

Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Manijeh Alimohammadi, Mojtaba Sepandi, Farzad Khodamoradi, Yousef Alimohamadi · 2019

Background: Under-five mortality and life expectancy are two important health indicators that may be associated with GDP. Thus, the evaluation of the relationship between these indicators can be important in health planning. Objectives: Du…

Cigarette Smoking and Health-related Quality of Life in the General Population of Iran: Independent Associations According to Gender Open

Jalil Hasani, Abdolhalim Rajabi, Masoud Arefnezhad, Saeed Erfanpoor, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh , et al. · 2019

Background: Associations between smoking and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in the general population remain unclear. The aim of the study was to quantify the independent associations between smoking and HRQoL. Methods: A cross-sec…

Evaluation of sensitivity and specificity of tuberculosis diagnostic tools among HIV positive patients: A cross-sectional study Open

Yousef Alimohamadi, Parvin Afsar-Kazerooni, Mojtaba Sepandi, Shahla Chaichian, Hamidreza Tabatabaee , et al. · 2018

Background & Aim: Tuberculosis is the major cause of morbidity and mortality among HIV patients. Thus, early diagnosis of Tuberculosis among these patients is important. The purpose of the present study was to determine the Sensitivity, Sp…

Human development index, maternal mortality rate and under 5 years mortality rate in West and South Asian countries, 1980–2010: an ecological study Open

Yousef Alimohamadi, Farzad Khodamoradi, Malihe Khoramdad, Mohammad Shahbaz, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh · 2018

Human Development Index (HDI), maternal mortality rate (MMR) and children aged under 5 years mortality rate (U5MR) are fundamental issues, especially in low- and middle-income countries.

The Trend of Changes in the Risk Factors of Coronory Heart Disease from 1980 to 2010 in Iran Open

Manijeh Alimohammadi, Yousef Alimohamadi, Malihe Khoramdad, Mohammad Shahbaz, Amir Abbas Shokraeian , et al. · 2018

Background: Industrialization is the significant cause of death and inability in the most developed and ‎developing countries, and a greater part of nourishing inadequacies and infectious ‎diseases is attibuted to this outcome of modernity…

Physical activities (exercises or choreses) during pregnancy and mode of delivery in nulliparous women: A prospective cohort study Open

Abdolhalim Rajabi, Najmeh Maharlouei, Abbas Rezaianzadeh, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh , et al. · 2018

The results of this study showed that regular and standard physical activities during pregnancy can reduce the risk of caesarean section in pregnant women. These findings can be important in convincing health care providers to prescribe re…

Epidemiology of Animal Bites and Factors Associated With Delays in Initiating Post-exposure Prophylaxis for Rabies Prevention Among Animal Bite Cases: A Population-based Study Open

Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Abdolhalim Rajabi, Sajad Vahedi, Mohammad Shamsadiny, Mousa Ghelichi-Ghojogh , et al. · 2017

Although all animal bite victims received complete PEP, in some cases, there were delays. Further, the type of animal involved, the depth of the bite, and the patient's occupation were the major factors associated with a delay in the initi…

Catastrophic Health Expenditure of Chronic Diseases: Evidence from Hamadan, Iran Open

Sajad Vahedi, Aziz Rezapour, Farzad Faraji Khiavi, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Javad Javan‐Noughabi , et al. · 2017

Background: Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) could increase the risk of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). The present study aims to analyze CHE among households with and without chronic NCDs in Hamedan. Methods: In this cross-s…

Determinants of maternal mortality in Eastern Mediterranean region: A panel data analysis. Open

Mohsen Bayati, Sajad Vahedi, Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Zahra Kavosi, Zahra Jamali , et al. · 2016

Improved income and economic development, increased resources allocated to the health sector, improved delivery services particularly the increased use of trained staff in the delivery, improve quality of primary care centers, mitigating t…

Economic Burden of Thalassemia Major in Iran, 2015. Open

Firooz Esmaeilzadeh, Azita Azarkeivan, Sara Emamgholipour, Ali Akbari Sari, Mehdi Yaseri , et al. · 2016

The average annual cost per patient was estimated $ 8321.8 regardless of the cost of lost welfare. Of this amount, $ 7286.8 was related to direct medical costs, $ 461.4 to direct non-medical costs, and $ 573.5 to indirect costs. In additio…

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