Healthcare utilization among people with disabilities in Iran: what predictors are associated with medical visits?

Background: Ensuring equitable access to healthcare services for individuals with disabilities poses a significant challenge for healthcare systems. This research aimed to explore the factors affecting medical visits among this population.

Method: This cross-sectional study in Iran involved data from 766 adults with disabilities aged 18 and older.

Evaluation of Reporting Quality of Systematic Reviews on Health Economic Evaluation Studies Based on the CHEERS Statement: An Overview of Reviews.

Background: Economic evaluations in healthcare are designed to inform decisions by the estimation of cost and effect trade-off of two or more interventions. We aimed to evaluate the standards of systematic reviews on health economic evaluation studies using the CHEERS (Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Report Standards) tool.

Methods: We searched the PubMed database with keywords CHEERS and its complete form in combination with keywords related to cost or economic evaluation without language and time limits until November 17, 2021.

Gender differences in adverse effects following the second dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine: a cross-sectional study among healthcare workers.

Background: Vaccination in pandemic diseases, in addition to positive effects on controlling the prevalence and reducing the resulting socioeconomic effects, can have adverse effects with different intensity based on gender, type and dose of vaccine. We aimed to investigate gender differences in adverse effects following the second dose of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine among healthcare workers (HWs).

Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 780 HWs who worked in two educational hospitals in Kermanshah city, western Iran, and had received the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccine.

Development and psychometric validation of an age-friendly health system assessment tool in the Iranian context.

Evaluating health system interventions for elderly care necessitates a context-specific, credible and dependable instrument. This research was dedicated to creating and validating a tool to assess the health system's age-friendliness. The study unfolded in two pivotal stages: the generation of items utilizing a hybrid model and the psychometric appraisal of the tool, encompassing both validity and reliability assessments.

Determinants of Neonatal, Infant and Child Mortalities in Iran: A Systematic Review.

Background: Children mortality is considered as one of the main indicators of population development and health, while most of the children's deaths are preventable. This study systematically reviewed the determinants of children mortality in Iran.

Methods: This systematic review was conducted to summarize all the factors associated with children mortality in three age groups; Neonate (0-28 d), Infant (28 d-1 yr old) and children (<5 yr old), based on the PRISMA guideline.

Inpatient healthcare utilization among people with disabilities in Iran: determinants and inequality patterns.

Background: People with disabilities (PWD) have different health service needs and different factors affect the utilization of these services. Therefore, the aim of this present study was to identify determinants of inpatient healthcare utilization among PWDs in Iran.

Methods: This research was a secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional study.

Role of family factors in provision and perception of social support for older people in Iran: a cross-sectional survey.

Background: Iran has experienced a very fast fertility transition. The process of demographic transition, coupled with modernization, has had considerable consequences for the structure and function of families. There is rising concern in Iran about a potential decline in family care and support for older people as a result of these changes.