background in many parts of the world, ongoing deficiencies in health systems compromise the delivery of health interventions. the world health organization (who) identified four functions that health systems need to perform to achieve their goals: efforts to strengthen health systems focus on the way these functions are carried out. while a number of studies on health systems functions have be...

the aim of this review article is describing a research on spiritual and religious interventions in iran. an integrative review was conducted to determine the state of the science in iran. iranmedex, scientific information database, irandoc, noormags, magiran and google scholar were searched to find articles published in peer-reviewed journals from august 2002 to august 2012. a qualitative appr...

introduction: health system performance assessment provides appropriate information about the status of health systems for governments and communities. therefore, in the recent decade, many countries have focused on performance assessment and reporting in order to develop methods and tools as a mean to help achieving health goals. the present study tries to design an indicator-based model (incl...

Vidhi Thakkar and Terrence Sullivan have done a careful and thought-provoking job in trying to establish comparable estimates of public spending on health services and policy research (HSPR) in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Their main recommendation is a call for an international collaboration to develop common terms and categories of HSPR. This paper raises two additional q...

introduction: the scientific, technical, economic and social development of a society is closely connected to the amount of information produced by its managers, researcher and scholars. in this study, the necessity of the librarians and medical informants' cooperation in the approved research plans of iums was investigated. methods and materials: it was a descriptive study in which the partici...

Many articles over the last two decades have enumerated barriers to and facilitators for evidence use in health systems. Bowen et al’s article “Response to Experience of Health Leadership in Partnering with University-Based Researchers: A Call to ‘Re-imagine Research’” furthers the debate by focusing on an under-explored research area (health system design and health service organization) with ...