background one of the main objectives of health systems is the financial protection against out-of-pocket (oop) health expenditures. oop health expenditures can lead to catastrophic payments, impoverishment or poverty among households. in iran, health sector evolution plan (hsep) has been implemented since 2014 in order to achieve universal health coverage and reduce the oop health expenditures...

introduction: diabetes mellitus is one of the most frequent causes of morbidities , mortalities and increasing cost of health care services all over the world. diabete’s clinical information system which is part of diabete’s information management system make it possible to manage this illness. this study aimed at comparing the diabetes clinical information systems in the u.s. , scotland and fi...

background: health information system (his) has been utilized for collecting, processing, storing, and transferring the required information for planning and decision‑making at different levels of health sector to provide quality services. in this study, in order to provide high‑quality his, primary health care (phc) providers’ perspective on current challenges and barriers were investigated. m...

private healthcare services in vietnam are seen as a major part of the solution to the rapid increase in need and demand for healthcare services. formally recognized over 20 years ago, the private health services coexist with public services and are available all over the country. however, the scale and size of private sector is still small compared to the public sector and public acceptance an...

recognizing the advantages of primary care as a means of improving the entire health system, this text comments on reforms of publicly funded primary health centers, and the rapid development of private forprofit providers in sweden. many goals and expectations are connected to such reforms, which equally require critical analyses of scarce resources, professional trust/motivation and business ...

background: except in emergency cases, all patients should be seen first by a primary healthcare physician who decides whether a referral to secondary care is necessary. the present study examined the reasons for patient self-referral to specialists. methods: a random sample of 1036 individuals was selected from people attending public outpatient clinics and specialists’ offices in the private ...

background: hospitals are the central entity of each health care system and health promoting hospitals (hph) was launched by who in 1988. however, there has not been any accurate and detailed model for establishing a hph in iran up to now. therefore, this study aimed to determine factors affecting the establishment of a health promoting hospital in iran using factor analysis method. methods: th...

abstract the purpose of this article is to present a system dynamics (sd) model for studying the ‎interconnections among human being weight, eating habit, exercise, body fat, take-in medication, drugs-uses, and the health problems in general. due to the fact that all of these factors have direct and indirect impacts on the expenses that insurance company have to pay this author is proposing a s...

background maturity and its related sexual and mental changes are one of the most important events in the life of every individual. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of puberty health education based on health belief model on health behaviors and preventive among students boy first secondary school in marivan city in 2015. materials and methods this research is an experiment...