Background: The health system reform plan was implemented by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in accordance with the Fourth and Fifth Development Plan Acts in order to achieve public health coverage. Despite achieving many successes in the pursuit of the objectives of the plan, it has faced challenges. The purpose of the study was to determine the challenges of health system reform ...

Introduction One of the implemented plans in this case is the rural guide plan which is prepared and implemented by Islamic Revolution Housing Foundation since 1362. Guide plan, as an outer variable, has impacts on rural structures including these four dimensions: physical, economic, social and environmental. In villages of Kermanshah County, lack of educational, health care and business ser...

One of the main issues and challenges of managing health care system in Iran, is the issue of inequities in access to health services. Theoretical studies and empirical evidences indicate that implementation of the referral system and family physician plan is one of the main strategies to overcome inequity in the health and appropriate using of scarce resources in this area. But for successful ...

Background and Objectives: an important problem challenging cesarean section is its extensive use as a common method of delivery. Due to the growing trend of cesarean section in Iran in recent years, the natural delivery promotion program was implemented as one the programs incorporated in the Health System Reform Plan in 2014. In this study, the trend of changes in the percentage of CS deliver...

Introduction: In many countries, especially developing countries, the hospital is a very costly organization is. Healthcare reform plan implementation of the healthcare reform. Was conducted from May 93  with three approach  Financial protection of people, and establish  justice in access to health services and quality of services performed in hospitals. In this study, we t...