Predicting Iran’s achievement to Sustainable Development Goal 3.2: A systematic analysis of neonatal mortality with scenario-based projections to 2030

• Narges Ebrahimi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ NE and SS contributed equally to this work as Co-first authors.

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Sarvenaz Shahin ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ NE and SS contributed equally to this work as Co-first authors.

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Sogol Koolaji,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Ali Ghanbari,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Parinaz Mehdipour,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

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• Masoud Masinaei,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Negar Rezaei,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Azin Ghamari,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohammad-Reza Malekpour,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8648-5402

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• Nazila Rezaei,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Hamidreza Jamshidi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Bagher Larijani,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5386-7597

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• Ardeshir Khosravi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Deputy for Public Health, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

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• Farshad Farzadfar

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: f–farzadfar@tums.ac.ir

  Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8288-4046

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