Moving Equilibria in the Public Health Care Sector: a Low-quality Trap and a Resolution

مقایسه مراکز بهداشتی درمانی دولتی و تعاونی از نظر دستاوردهای ارائه خدمات و مراقبتهای اولیه سلامتی

Background and Aim: Public-private partnership is a type of privatization in which the public sector continues to participate in the provision of services. Based on an agreement between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Cooperatives, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences started the process of creating health cooperatives in the Eastern Azerbaijan Province. In this study we compare the...

Under the Table in Health Care System: A Case Report in Iran

Under the table or informal payments in several middle and low income countries is a serious impediment to health care reform. These payments are effectively a form of systemic corruption. This report shows the efforts of a patient who seek health care for his ankle while being requested to pay under the table in hospital and private clinic. The data were collected by interview and surveying pa...

Are We Asking All the Right Questions About Quality of Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

نظریَه ی مدیریَت نوین دولتی و نقش آن در کارایی ارائه ی خدمات بهداشتی و درمانی در ایران

Introduction: The pattern of health services delivery across the world changes from a spectrum of pure public to pure private sector. The failure of pure private sector, as well as pure public sector, brought experts to recommend alternative approaches such as New Public Management theory as a third-way. This article was aimed to present the results of reform in East Azerbaijan Province on the ...

رابطه کیفیت حکمرانی با سلامت در کشورهای منطقه جنوب غربی آسیا

Introduction: The role of good governance as a key to development effectiveness has been emphasized in recent years. It has been argued that merely allocating public resources for the right goods and services may not lead to desirable outcomes if budget institutions–involving the budget formulation, execution and monitoring–are malfunctioning. In a way that merely allocating budget resources fo...