Firooz Esmaeilzadeh

School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Tehran University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran

[ 1 ] - Comparison of the Effects of Public and Private Health Expenditures on the Health Status: a Panel Data Analysis in Eastern Mediterranean Countries

Background Health expenditures are divided in two parts of public and private health expenditures. Public health expenditures contain social security spending, taxing to private and public sectors, and foreign resources like loans and subventions. On the other hand, private health expenditures contain out of pocket expenditures and private insurances. Each of these has different effects on the ...

[ 2 ] - Determinants of maternal mortality in Eastern Mediterranean re-gion: A panel data analysis

Background: As one of the main criteria of health outcomes, maternal mortality indicates the socioeconomic development level of countries. The present study aimed at identifying and analyzing the effective factors on maternal mortality in Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) of the World Health Organization (WHO).   Methods: Analytical model was developed based on the literature review. P...

[ 3 ] - Health-related quality of life and its related factors in HIV+ patients referred to Shiraz Behavioral Counseling Center, Iran in 2012

 Background: HIV/AIDS is known to affect an individual not only physically but also mentally, socially, and financially. It is a syndrome that builds a vacuum in a person affecting his/her life as a whole. Nowadays, using anti-viral medication delays the onset of the disease cycle and increases the patients’ life time. From the psychological point of view, however, such patients are faced with ...

[ 4 ] - هزینه – مطلوبیت درمان بیماران مبتلا به تالاسمی ماژور در ایران

  چکیده سابقه و هدف تالاسمی ماژور یک بیماری اتوزومال مغلوب، با عوارض زیاد و مرگ و میر بالا است. امروزه امید به زندگی بیماران تالاسمی ماژور با پیشرفت‌های درمانی به طور قابل توجهی افزایش یافته است در نتیجه بیماران تالاسمی نیازمند مراقبت مادام‌العمر هستند، اما مراقبت از بیماران تالاسمی هزینه‌های زیادی را ایجاد می‏کند، لذا آگاهی از هزینه‏ها و اثربخشی درمان جهت کنترل هزینه‌ها و ارائه درمان‌های کارآ...