Economic Evaluation Approaches in the Field of Disaster Health Management.

Background: Economic evaluation approaches are needed to establish useful interventions for saving lives, preventing economic damage, and saving recovery costs at the time of disasters. Thus, the present study is aimed to identify the studies that applied economic evaluation approaches/methods for evaluating the economic costs of disasters.

Methods: A scoping review was conducted to find the eligible studies and perform a comprehensive data analysis.

The necessity for an integrated Emergency Operations Center (EOC) among first responders: Lesson learned from two Iranian railway accidents.

Introduction: Several train accidents have occurred in Iran in the last twenty years, resulting in considerable loss of human lives. This study aims to investigate and analyze the response process and deficiencies thereof, of three responding organizations to two railway accidents in Iran.

Methods: The study was performed in 2 stages to examine the challenges faced by the first responders in the said accidents.

Comparison of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among healthy, obese and chronically ill Iranian children.

Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has frequently been compared between both healthy and obese children and healthy and chronically ill children; however, there is glaring lack of evidence regarding comparison of HRQoL in obese children with their counterparts with chronic diseases. Therefore, this study aimed to compare HRQoL among healthy, obese and chronically ill children.

Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted among 802 children (8-12 years) who were recruited via convenience sampling method.

A model based on equations of kinetics to study nitrogen dioxide behavior within a plasma discharge reactor.

In this work, a zero-dimensional kinetics model is used to study the temporal behavior of different species such as charged particles, radicals and excited states inside a Dielectric Barrier Discharge plasma reactor. It is shown that, the reactor significantly reduces the concentration of nitrogen monoxide as an environmental pollutant. After a drastic increase, a decrease in the concentration of the NO2 molecules inside the reactor is seen.