public hospitals can privatize management activities by contracting with a private organization or person to perform the work. management contract is a method which uses private sector for major government projects like hospitals. this review study evaluated management contract conditions in selected countries. we focused on services under contract, different forms of management contract, metho...

background: there is an increasing trend of outsourcing public departments. teaching hospitals also outsourced some of their departments to private sectors. the aim of this study was to investigate and compare the educational status of students in public and outsourced departments of teaching hospitals affiliated to iran university of medical sciences.   methods: this study was conducted in six...

To generate recommendations for improving adherence to public health advice during public health crises, we conducted semi-structured interviews with employees at the Brentwood Road Postal Facility and on Capitol Hill to identify key themes associated with decisions to adhere to recommended antibiotic prophylaxis during the 2001 anthrax attacks. Factors used in deciding to adhere to recommended...

After the revolution of 1979, all of the private banks existing in Iran were nationalized and the economic system was based on public, cooperative and private sectors and banking operations were categorized in public sector. Consequently, private sector and foreign banks were bared from doing banking operations in Iran. According to the recent laws and regulations passed in Iran, the Irani...

FOR AY XITMRE:R OF YEARS t.he Division of Research and Statistics has published two annual series of estimates relating to expenditures for lienltli purposes. The first considers total public and private heakll expenditures‘ as part of the national expenditures for social welfare ~1~1 has appeared in recent years in the November issue of the IsT-LI,ETlN.’ The second series sllows private consum...