National health reform needs strategic investment in health services research

The Impact Of Health System Reform On Students Health Indicators in Alborz Health Services Centers

Introduction: Health indicators are one of the ways to measure success in achieving the goals of health systems. This study aimed to assess the changes of the students health indicators before and after the health system reform in Health Services Centers of Alborz University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed at health care centers of Alborz University .The s...

Relating health services to community health needs.

Planning and evaluation of health services would bevefit from an increased ability to relame health needs to health measures effective to meet these needs. In 1968.69 studies were made in India and Turkey which attempted to develop a framework using well defined health functions to link needs arid services. An important fea­ ture of these studies was the functional analysis of health services a...

Recent Iranian Health System Reform: An Operational Perspective to Improve Health Services Quality

The operational management of healthcare services is expected to directly touch patient experiences. Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) for the first time, as such, has sought to improve the operational management of healthcare delivery within a reform agenda by setting benchmarks for ‘number of visit per hour’ and waiting time in outpatient clinics of about 700 affiliated...

Building the national health information infrastructure for personal health, health care services, public health, and research

BACKGROUND Improving health in our nation requires strengthening four major domains of the health care system: personal health management, health care delivery, public health, and health-related research. Many avoidable shortcomings in the health sector that result in poor quality are due to inaccessible data, information, and knowledge. A national health information infrastructure (NHII) offer...

Global health response to crises needs reform.