Author/Authors :
Sabet Rohani, Hamideh Department of Community Medicine - School of Medicine - Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Ahmadvand, Alireza Global Health Clinical Research Training Fellow - Imperial College London, London, UK , Garmaroudi, Gholamreza Department of Health Education and Promotion - School of Public Health - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
Background: Reviewing the reproductive health indicators (RHIs) provides the possibility of periodic health system performance
evaluation to achieve balanced development. This study aimed to determine the trend of ten reproductive health indicators changes
during 2002-2011, and examining their relationship with the Human Development Index (HDI).
Methods: In this ecological study the trend of ten reproductive health indicators from five selected provinces of Iran were mapped.
Then the relationship of these ten indicators with HDI was investigated using non parametric Spearman's rank correlation coefficient in
SPSS v. 20.
Results: There was a statistically significant direct and strong correlation between the percentage of childbirth by a trained person
and HDI (r= 0.9, p=0.037).
Conclusion: In our study, it can be expected that the provinces with similar reproductive health indicators, likely have similar HDI.
