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...

Background: In all countries, health expenditures are a main part of government expenditure, and governments try to find policies and strategies to reduce this expenditure. Overall expenditure index has been raised 30 times during the past 20 years in Iran, while in the health sector, the growth in health expenditures index has been 71 times. The present study aimed at examining health care exp...

1. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran 3. Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Minimally Invasive Surgery Re...

1. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Kurdistan Uni...

Family physician (FP) is a suggested model for controlling Iran health system challenges such as non-communicable diseases (NCDs), mental illnesses, and HIV-AIDS besides urbanization, and elderly issues. Although FP is a legal commitment, it faces several obstacles such as lack of infrastructure, diversity of insurances, and unwillingness of senior health policy makers about it. (SUMS) is a pil...

1. Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2. Tabriz Health Services Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 3. School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Tehran University of Medical...

1. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. Dept. of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of P...

In 2010, two reports have provided estimates of maternal mortality ratios (MMR) for different countries (1, 2). Hogan et al. have reported a decreasing trend for MMR in Iran from 101 (per 100000 live births) in 1980, 64 in 1995, and 36 in 2000 to 28 in 2008 (1). In the World Health Statistics 2010, two different estimates have been provided for most of the countries; one countryreported and one...

1 Department of Public Health, School of Health, Social Determinants in Health Promotion Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran 2 Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran 3 Department of Public Health, School of Health, Social Determinants in Health Promotion Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical ...

Rohollah Kalhor, Mohammad Zakaria Kiaei, Mohammad Azmal, Saeideh moosavi, Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee, Soheyla Gholami. Assistant Professor, Ph.D. of Health Services Management, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran; Health Services Management Department, School of Public Health, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran; PhD in ...