Arash Rashidian
Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
[ 1 ] - Eliminating Healthcare-Associated Infections in Iran: A Qualitative Study to Explore Stakeholders’ Views
Background Although preventable, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) continue to pose huge health and economic burdens on countries worldwide. Some studies have indicated the numerous causes of HAIs, but only a tiny literature exists on the multifaceted measures that can be used to address the problem. This paper presents stakeholders’ opinions on measures for controlling HAIs in Iran. M...
[ 2 ] - Out-of-Pocket and Informal Payment Before and After the Health Transformation Plan in Iran: Evidence from Hospitals Located in Kurdistan, Iran
Background One of the objectives of the health transformation plan (HTP) in Iran is to reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for inpatient services and eradicate informal payments. The HTP has three phases: the first phase (launched in May 5, 2014) is focused on reducing OOP payments for inpatient services; the second phase (launched in May 22, 2014) is focused on primary healthcare (PHC) and the...
[ 3 ] - Factors Associated With Unhealthy Snacks Consumption Among Adolescents in Iran’s Schools
Background Well-informed interventions are needed if school-based health promotion is to be effective. Amongother aims, the Iranian Health Promoting School (IHPS) program that was launched in 2011, has an important aimof promoting dietary behaviors of adolescents. The present study, therefore, aimed to investigate the factors affectingunhealthy snacking of adolescents and provide evidence for a...
[ 4 ] - Changes in Socio-Economic Inequality in Neonatal Mortality in Iran Between 1995-2000 and 2005-2010: An Oaxaca Decomposition Analysis
Background Exploring changes in health inequality and its determinants over time is of policy interest. Accordingly, this study aimed to decompose inequality in neonatal mortality into its contributing factors and then explore changes from 1995-2000 to 2005-2010 in Iran. Methods Required data were drawn from two Iran’s demographic and health survey (DHS) conducted in 2000 and 2010. Normalized...
[ 5 ] - Improving Injectable Medicines Prescription in Outpatient Services: A Path Towards Rational Use of Medicines in Iran
Injection is one of the most common medical procedures in the health sector. Annually up to 16 billion injections are prescribed in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), many of them are not necessary for the patients, increase the healthcare costs and may result in side effects. Currently over 40% of outpatient prescriptions in Iran contain at least one injectable medicine. To address the ...
[ 6 ] - Priority Setting for Improvement of Cervical Cancer Prevention in Iran
Background Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. Organized cervical screening and vaccination against human papilloma virus (HPV) have been successful interventions for prevention of invasive cervical cancer (ICC). Because of cultural and religious considerations, ICC has low incidence in Iran and many other Muslim countries. There is no organized cervical scre...
[ 7 ] - Policy Options to Reduce Fragmentation in the Pooling of Health Insurance Funds in Iran
There are fragmentations in Iran’s health insurance system. Multiple health insurance funds exist, without adequate provisions for transfer or redistribution of cross subsidy among them. Multiple risk pools, including several private secondary insurance schemes, have resulted in a tiered health insurance system with inequitable benefit packages for different segments of the population. Also fra...
[ 8 ] - Improving Fraud and Abuse Detection in General Physician Claims: A Data Mining Study
Background We aimed to identify the indicators of healthcare fraud and abuse in general physicians’ drug prescription claims, and to identify a subset of general physicians that were more likely to have committed fraud and abuse. Methods We applied data mining approach to a major health insurance organization dataset of private sector general physicians’ prescription claims. It involved 5 ste...
[ 9 ] - The Experience of Implementing the Board of Trustees’ Policy in Teaching Hospitals in Iran: An Example of Health System Decentralization
Background In 2004, the health system in Iran initiated an organizational reform aiming to increase the autonomy of teaching hospitals and make them more decentralized. The policy led to the formation of a board of trustees in each hospital and significant modifications in hospitals’ financing. Since the reform aimed to improve its predecessor policy (implementation of hospital autonomy began i...
[ 10 ] - Factors Affecting Family Physicians’ Drug Prescribing: A Cross-Sectional Study in Khuzestan, Iran
Background Rational prescription is a considerable issue which must be paid more attention to assess the behavior of prescribers. The aim of this study was to examine factors affecting family physicians’ drug prescribing. Methods We carried out a retrospective cross-sectional study in Khuzestan province, Iran in 2011. Nine hundred eighty-six prescriptions of 421 family physicians (including 3...
[ 11 ] - Nurses Exposure to Workplace Violence in a Large Teaching Hospital in Iran
Background Workplace violence is one of the factors which can strongly reduce job satisfaction and the quality of working life of nurses. The aim of this study was to measure nurses’ exposure to workplace violence in one of the major teaching hospitals in Tehran in 2010. Methods We surveyed the nurses in a cross-sectional design in 2010. The questionnaire was adapted from a standardized quest...
[ 12 ] - General practitioners\' views on key factors affecting their desired income: A principal component analysis approach
Background: Based on the target income hypothesis, the economic behavior of physicians is mainly affected by their target income. This study aimed at designing an instrument to explain how general practitioners (GPs) set their desired income. Methods: A self-administered questionnaire of affecting factors on GPs' target income was extracted from literature reviews and a small qual...
[ 13 ] - بررسی موانع و تسهیلکننده های ارائه خدمات در پایگاههای سلامت مشارکتی و دولتی تحت پوشش دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران: یک مطالعه کیفی
دریافت : 96/8/3 پذیرش:96/12/20 چکیده مقدمه: مطالعه کیفی حاضر با هدف شناسایی موانع و تسهیلکننده های ارائه خدمت در پایگاههای سلامت تحت پوشش دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران بهانجام رسید. روشمطالعه: برای انجام این مطالعه با کارشناسان مصاحبه به عمل آمد، پیادهسازی انجامشد، و نمایهسازی روی تمامی مصاحبه ها صورتگرفت. تمامی افراد و موضوعات کدگذاریشده و متعاقبا، جدول مربوط به نمودارها تکمیل گردید. ...
[ 14 ] - نقش لابیگری و تضاد منافع در تصمیمگیریهای نظام سلامت ایران
دریافت: 95/10/30 پذیرش: 96/1/12 چکیده مقدمه: هر چند نظامهای سلامت بهدنبال حصول اهداف سلامت با استفاده از رویکردهای مبتنی بر شواهد علمی و ارزشی میباشند اما تصمیمگیریها در این حوزه تحت تأثیر برخی عوامل ناملموس و پیشبینی نشده قرار میگیرد. هدف این مطالعه بررسی نقش لابیگری و تضاد منافع در تصمیمگیریهای نظام سلامت کشور میباشد. روش کار: در این مطالعه کیفی برای گردآوری دادهها از بررسی مت...
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