BACKGROUND The current situation of health promotion (HP) services in hospitals of Iran is unclear. The aim of this study was to assess the status of HP in hospitals in Isfahan, Iran. METHODS This study is a cross-sectional survey in which 9 educational hospitals selected through census sampling. HP self-assessment was used for the data collection. The assessment teams formed, and evidence ex...

BACKGROUND The area of e-Health is broad and has an excellent growth potential. An increasing number of experts believe that e-Health will fuel the next breakthroughs in health system improvements throughout the world, but there is frequent evidence of unsustainable use of e-Health systems in medical centres, particularly hospitals, for different reasons in different countries. Iran is also a d...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The user's satisfaction with information system in fact denotes the extent the user is satisfied with the system's achievement in fulfilling his/her information requirements. This study tries to explore the users' satisfaction with hospital information systems (HISs) based on DeLone and McLean's model focusing on the medical-teaching hospitals of Isfahan city. METHODOLO...

Masoumeh Sadeghi, Hamidreza Roohafza, Hamid Afshar, Fereshteh Rajabi, Mohamadarash Ramzani, Hasan Shemirani, Nizal Sarafzadeghan I Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Isfahan, IRAN. II Mental Health Department, Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Isfahan, IRAN. III Psychiatry Department, Isfahan University o...

1 Associate Professor, Psychosomatic Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. 2 Associate Professor, Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. 3 Resident, Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, School...

INTRODUCTION Since 2013, in Iran's health care, the contribution of direct payments for health-care services was estimated more than 50 % of all expenditures. In May 2014, Iran's health-care reform was established to improve health services quality and reduce patients' out-of-pocket payments <10% in urban and 5% in rural areas. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate unmet costs ...

1Student, Department of Basic Sciences, Isfahan Payame Noor University, Isfahan, Iran 2Assistant Professor, Biosensor Research Center and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 3Professor, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 4Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Scien...

Vahid Shaygannejad, Khodayar Golabchi, Alireza Dehghani, Fereshteh Ashtari, Sepehr Haghighi, Mahsa Mirzendehdel2, Majid Ghasemi1 Department of Neurology, Isfahan Neuroscience Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Student of Medicine, Isfahan Neuroscience Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Department of Ophtalmology, Isfahan ...

1 Department of Physical Education, School of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. 2 Associate Professor of Cardiology, Cardiac Rehabilitation Research Center, Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. 3 Associate Professor, Department of Exercise Physiology, School of Physical Education and Sport Sc...