Behavioural, Financial, and Health and Medical Economics: A Connection

Paying People to Be Healthy

User Financial Incentives (UFIs) have emerged as a powerful tool for health promotion. Strong evidence suggests that large enough incentives paid to individuals, conditional on behaviour they can control, encourages more of the desired behaviour. However, such interventions can have unintended consequences for non-targeted behaviours. Implementation difficulties that result in individuals not u...

The Cycle of Policy Making, Management and Economics of Health System

In any society, health systems should meet health needs of the population in various aspects. The health system should also move towards the system’s predetermined goals in order to establish an effective connection between different cycles of the system from policy-making to implementation by considering the fundamentals of economics.

Comparing the Results of two Cost Sharing Approaches in Calculating the Cost of Hospital Services: a case study

Comparing the Results of two Cost Sharing Approaches in Calculating the Cost of Hospital Services: a case study   Alipour Vahid1, Rezapour Aziz2, Meshkani Zahra3, Farabi Hiro3*, Mazdaki Alireza4, Hakimi Narges5   1. Assistant Professor, Department of Health Economics, Health Management and Economics Research Centre, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Associate Professo...

Transparency in Budget and financial performance of Universities of Medical Sciences

Determine of cost drivers in Activity Based Costing method of hospital services

Determination of Cost Drivers through Activity Based Costing Method in Determination of Hospital Services Costs  Meshkani Zahra1, Reza Pour Aziz2, Alipour Vahid3, Farabi Hero1*, Mazdaki Alireza4, Hakimi Narges5 1. Ph.D. Student in Health Economics, Health Management and Economics Research Centre, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Associate Professor, Health Management an...