Introduction: Nosocomial infection (NI) is an infection occurring in a patient after 48 hours of hospitalization or up to 72 hours after discharge from the hospital, which was not present or incubating at the time of admission.  Hospital accreditation standards have a significant impact on the prevention and control of NI. Nevertheless, Iran’s hospital accreditation standards face challenges. T...

in the early 19th century and as a result of war circumstances, iran and britain experienced the formation and development of limited political intercourses. emergence of napoleon, as a serious danger made britain to pay a special attention to iran. on the other side, iran welcomed the expansion of its ties with britain due to its military conflicts with russia. although britain was not interes...

We offer a UK-based commentary on the recent “Perspective” published in IJHPM by Thakkar and Sullivan. We are sympathetic to the authors’ call for increased funding for health service and policy research (HSPR). However, we point out that increasing that investment – in any of the three countries they compare: Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom– will ipso facto not necessarily lea...