among others internal, regional, international, political, economic, technical, social and cultural factors are reasons that theorists introduce for beginning of integration at a region. by looking at the functions of the shanghai cooperation organization and the association of southeast asian nations (asean), we understand that there are two basic pragmatic factors, the support of the great po...

Background and Objectives: Social Security Organization (SSO) is the second largest organization to the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) in providing health care services in Iran. In recent years the gap between the SSO’s resources and expenditures has shown an unprecedented growing trend due to the rapidly increasing demand. Continuation of this trend may lead ...

To address information security threats, an organization defines security policies that state how to deal with sensitive information. These policies are high-level policies that apply for the whole organization and span the three security domains: physical, digital and social. One example of a high-level policy is: ”The sales data should never leave the organization.” The high-level policies ar...

the research discussed in this article consists of the process ended to propos a structure for social welfare and security which took more than 11 months in social security research institute. the main topics discussed are as follows: 1- the importance of social security and its relationship to economic growth, social justice, human generosity and national honor. 2- the basis and opportunities ...

Empirical evidence from U.S. studies suggests that, on average, female physicians earn less than their male counterparts. This gap in earnings does not disappear when individual and market characteristics are controlled for. This paper investigates whether a gender earnings difference can also be observed in a health care system predominantly financed by public insurance companies. Using a uniq...

Until now, only income factors were considered for empowerment. But in contemporary times, most nonprofit and non-advocacy approaches, such as social capital and its components, have been taken into consideration. The World Bank has identified social capital as one of the pillars of the empowerment process. Hence, the main purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of social capital and its...

background and objectives: social security organization (sso) is the second largest organization to the ministry of health and medical education (mohme) in providing health care services in iran. in recent years the gap between the sso’s resources and expenditures has shown an unprecedented growing trend due to the rapidly increasing demand. continuation of this trend may lead to financial imba...

introduction: medicine is an inseparable link of health chain; a flaw in health process for high expenditures of the medicine or inappropriate access shall certainly bring higher costs in the mentioned procedure. the present study aimed to evaluate the impact of the households’ income, geographical access, patients’ direct payment, physician's visit and insured' inpatient rate on the amount of ...