| Literature DB >> 31043324 |
Goodarz Danaei1, Farshad Farzadfar2, Roya Kelishadi3, Arash Rashidian4, Omid M Rouhani5, Shirin Ahmadnia6, Alireza Ahmadvand7, Mandana Arabi8, Ali Ardalan9, Mohammad Arhami10, Mohammad Hossein Azizi11, Moslem Bahadori12, Jill Baumgartner13, Arash Beheshtian14, Shirin Djalalinia15, Leila Doshmangir16, Ali Akbar Haghdoost17, Rosa Haghshenas7, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor18, Farhad Islami19, Farin Kamangar20, Davood Khalili21, Kaveh Madani22, Hossein Masoumi-Asl23, Ali Mazyaki24, Ali Mirchi25, Ehsan Moradi5, Touraj Nayernouri26, Debbie Niemeier27, Amir-Houshang Omidvari28, Niloofar Peykari29, Farhad Pishgar7, Mostafa Qorbani30, Kazem Rahimi31, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar32, Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani33, Nazila Rezaei7, Saeid Shahraz34, Amirhossein Takian35, Ali Tootee36, Majid Ezzati37, Hamid Reza Jamshidi38, Bagher Larijani39, Reza Majdzadeh40, Reza Malekzadeh41.
Abstract
Being the second-largest country in the Middle East, Iran has a long history of civilisation during which several dynasties have been overthrown and established and health-related structures have been reorganised. Iran has had the replacement of traditional practices with modern medical treatments, emergence of multiple pioneer scientists and physicians with great contributions to the advancement of science, environmental and ecological changes in addition to large-scale natural disasters, epidemics of multiple communicable diseases, and the shift towards non-communicable diseases in recent decades. Given the lessons learnt from political instabilities in the past centuries and the approaches undertaken to overcome health challenges at the time, Iran has emerged as it is today. Iran is now a country with a population exceeding 80 million, mainly inhabiting urban regions, and has an increasing burden of non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes, malignancies, mental disorders, substance abuse, and road injuries.Entities:
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Year: 2019 PMID： 31043324 DOI： 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)33197-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lancet ISSN： 0140-6736 Impact factor: 79.321