Designing a World-Class Health Care System

Designing a managed care model for emerging respiratory infectious diseases in the Iranian health care system

Background and Aim: The purpose of this study is to design a model of managed care for emerging respiratory infectious diseases in the Iranian health care system in 1399. Methods: To achieve this goal, first the effective factors and indicators affecting the managed care model for emerging respiratory infectious diseases are identified based on content analysis technique and then these factors...

designing a health system performance management model for iran

Introduction The performance management is very important in order to reach the outcomes and outcomes expected from public organizations as well as to meet the public and public stakeholders in the face of the costs of public resources, and on this basis, this research deals with the formulation of performance management patterns in health and health systems method of work: this study is practi...

A Model of Basic Dental Care Service in a Developing Health Care System

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the components of oral health care system in some developed countries and propose a model for Iran   Methods: The present study was a qualitative, cross-sectional, and comparative research that took place in 2012. Oral health care systems in some developed countries were reviewed to propose a framework for Iran. This framework was discussed and revie...

A brave new world of health care.

Lean health care: what can hospitals learn from a world-class automaker?

BACKGROUND With health care costs continuing to rise, a variety of process improvement methodologies have been proposed to address the reported inefficiencies in health care delivery. Lean production is one such method. The management philosophy and tools of lean production come from the manufacturing industry, where they were pioneered by Toyota Motor Corporation, which is viewed as the leader...