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Mohsen Naghavi

Researcher at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Publications -  454
Citations -  234507

Mohsen Naghavi is an academic researcher from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mortality rate. The author has an hindex of 139, co-authored 381 publications receiving 169048 citations. Previous affiliations of Mohsen Naghavi include Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust & Public Health Foundation of India.

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Improving the quality of cause of death data for public health policy: are all 'garbage' codes equally problematic?

TL;DR: This work has found that the population’s likely true mortality pattern was considerably different from the pattern reported by the CRVS system, and these discrepancies have been largely attributed to physicians’ extensive use of garbage codes.
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Epidemiology of bicycle injuries in 13 health divisions, Islamic Republic of Iran 2003.

TL;DR: Bicyclists in Iran, particularly males and young children, are vulnerable to severe injury and death when struck by moving vehicles on highways.
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Unintentional injuries in the rural population of Twiserkan, Iran: A cross-sectional study on their incidence, characteristics and preventability

TL;DR: Not only domestic injuries but also those in traffic are an important cause of severe and fatal injury among rural people and health workers may play an important role in injury surveillance and in identifying context-relevant means of prevention that they or other actors may then implement.
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Burden of lower respiratory infections in the Eastern Mediterranean Region between 1990 and 2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study

Ali H. Mokdad, +144 more
TL;DR: A systematic analysis of mortality and morbidity data for LRI and its specific etiologic factors, including pneumococcus, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Respiratory syncytial virus, and influenza virus, calls for public health strategies to reduce the level of risk factors in each age group.