background: responsiveness is one of the three main goals of the health system introduced by world health organization. this study aimed at examining health system responsiveness after health sector evolution plan in kermanshah, western iran. methods: a sample of 335 hospitalized patients was selected using proportionate allocation to population size method in the city of kermanshah (iran) in 2...

abstract background: the university student health surveillance system can play a key role in the health promotion of the educated class of the society. this can be done through collecting information related to health and using it for screening and prevention of disease. hence, this article will be based on the necessity of existence of such system. materials and methods: we used interview and...

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...

Roghieh Kharaghani, Mohammad Shariati, Afsaneh Keramat, Masud Yunesian, Alireza Moghisi. Department of Midwifery, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran; Department of Community Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Institute for Environmental Research, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Center for Health Related S...

like many other developing countries pharmacoeconomics and outcome research and its applications in national health system is a new but promising filed in iran. although decision makers of iran national health system decided to use pharmacoeconomics in the decision making approach several hurdles including lack of reliable national data, lack of expertise and local experience are the main chall...

information plays a vital role in effective management of any system. with the health management information system (hmis) specific information may be provide to support o the decision makers at various levels of the health system to assist evidence-based decision making. pharmaceutical distributor companies have reported their sales data to moh at monthly intervals. each company should report ...

ABOUT PIVOTAL MATTERS IN IRANIAN HEALTH SYSTEM ARE MADE Leila Doshmangir, Arash Rashidian. Department of Health Services Management, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Tabriz Health Services Management Research Centre, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Department...

Unfortunately, informal payments for health care are responsible for a considerable share of patients' out-of-pocket payments in Iran (1, 2). Almost all health care users and providers are familiar with such payments with the name of “under the table payments” in Iran (3). About half of Iranian health care seekers have faced with such payments at least one time during a year (2). Although the i...

1 Proteomics Research Center, Students’ Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3 Department of Health System Research, Gastroenterology and Liver Disease Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehra...