OBJECTIVES The health transformation program was a recent reform in the health system of Iran that was implemented in early 2014. Some of the program's important goals were to improve the equity of payments and to reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) payments and catastrophic health expenditures (CHE). In this study, these goals were evaluated using a before-and-after analysis. METHODS Data on househol...

OBJECTIVE To determine if higher fertility and lower contraceptive use among the poorer segments of society should be considered an inequality, reflecting a higher desire for large families among the poor, or an inequity, a product of the poor being prevented from achieving their desired fertility to the same degree as wealthier segments of society. METHODS Using the most recent Demographic a...

background: the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the inequality of geographical distribution of non-cardiac intensive care beds in iran using the gini coefficient. methods: the population information of iran's provinces in 2006 was obtained from the statistical center of iran and the number of non-cardiac intensive care beds (including icu, posticu and nicu beds) in all provinces wa...

This article investigates the mapping of Colored Trails onto existing games. Two metastrategies are introduced to analyze the game. Based on those metastrategies, a two-player normal form game is derived. Depending on parameter settings, this game can be mapped onto two well-studied games from the field of game theory, i.e. Prisoner’s Dilemma and Stag Hunt. By introducing a third metastrategy, ...