• Goodarz Danaei, Farshad Farzadfar, Roya Kelishadi, Arash Rashidian, Omid M Rouhani, Shirin Ahmadnia, Alireza Ahmadvand, Mandana Arabi, Ali Ardalan, Mohammad Arhami, Mohammad Hossein Azizi, Moslem Bahadori, Jill Baumgartner, Arash Beheshtian, Shirin Djalalinia, Leila Doshmangir, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Rosa Haghshenas, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Farhad Islami, Farin Kamangar, Davood Khalili, Kaveh Madani, Hossein Masoumi-Asl, Ali Mazyaki, Ali Mirchi, Ehsan Moradi, Touraj Nayernouri, Debbie Niemeier, Amir-Houshang Omidvari, Niloofar Peykari, Farhad Pishgar, Mostafa Qorbani, Kazem Rahimi, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar, Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani, Nazila Rezaei, Saeid Shahraz, Amirhossein Takian, Ali Tootee, Majid Ezzati, Hamid Reza Jamshidi, Bagher Larijani, Reza Majdzadeh, and Reza Malekzadeh.
• Department of Global Health and Population and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Scientific Association for Public Health in Iran, Boston, MA, USA.
• Lancet. 2019 May 11; 393 (10184): 198420051984-2005.

AbstractBeing 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.Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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