Informing policy with health labour market analysis to improve availability of family doctors in Tajikistan.

Background: Tajikistan has embarked on health reforms to orient the health system towards primary health care (PHC). The health labour market analysis (HLMA) was initiated by the Ministry of Health with the World Health Organization (WHO) on policy questions related to the PHC workforce team. This article presents the results with focus on family doctors as a critical part of the PHC team, providing lessons for strengthening family medicine and PHC in the European Region and central Asia.

Economic Burden of Asthma in Northwest Iran.

Background: The economic burden of asthma is a major public health concern. This study estimates the economic burden of asthma in Northwest of Iran.

Methods: A longitudinal study was conducted between 2017 and 2018 in Tabriz (Iran) using the Persian version of the Work Productivity and Activity Impairment (WPAI) questionnaire.

The impact of health reform on poverty estimates in Iran: Implications for monitoring the first goal of Sustainable Development Goals.

Introduction: Iran launched a series of health reforms called Health Transformation Plan (HTP) in order to improve financial protection and access to health care in 2014. This study aimed to investigate the extent of impoverishment due to out of pocket (OOP) payments during 2011-2016 and to assess the implications of health expenditures to overall national poverty rate before and after the HTP implementation, with a focus on monitoring the first Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Methods: The study relied on data from a nationally representative household income and expenditure survey.

Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in iran: the case for Investment.

Background: Non-communicable diseases are imposing a considerable burden on Iran. This study aims to assess the Return on Investment (ROI) for implementation of Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) prevention program in Iran.

Methods: Four disease groups including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, and respiratory diseases were included in our ROI analysis.

Measurement and determinants of financial protection in health in Afghanistan.

Background: Out of pocket (OOP) payments for health are significant health financing challenges in Afghanistan as it is a source of incurrence of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and impoverishment. Measuring and understanding the drivers and impacts of this financial health hardship is an economic and public health priority, particularly in the time of COVID-19. This is the first study that measures the financial hardship and determines associated factors in Afghanistan.

A scoping review of health economic evaluation in the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean region.

: Economic evaluations are widely used tools that greatly contribute to evidence-based health policy and decision-making. However, economic evidence is not commonly used in the countries of the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region.: The aim of this scoping review is to map the existing literature of health economic evaluation studies in the countries of the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region.

Developing health accounts following SHA 2011: a situational analysis of countries in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region.

Background: National health accounts provide data for health-financing policy analysis, reforms and strategies to attain national health development goals and objectives such as universal health coverage. However, in the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region there are many challenges, making it difficult for health accounts teams to provide timely reports and for policy-makers to use them to inform policy change.

Aim: To undertake a situational analysis of health accounts in the Region and assess the health accounts production process.

Awareness, treatment, control of hypertension, and associated factors: Results from a Turkish national study.

Objective: Despite the fact that hypertension (HT) can be diagnosed and easily treated, it is frequently not handled well throughout the world, and as a developing country in Turkey. The objective of this study was to assess the factors associated with the awareness, treatment, and control of HT in Turkey.

Methods: Data came from Chronic Diseases and Risk Factors Survey, comprising a nationally representative sample of 12,971 individuals, conducted by the Turkish Ministry of Health in 2011.

Urban and rural differences in hypertension risk factors in Turkey.

Objective: Existing literature shows considerable regional differences in terms of hypertension (HT) prevalence in Turkey. The purpose of this study was to analyze some of the known HT risk factors contributing to the variations between urban and rural areas of Turkey in HT development.

Methods: We used data from the 2011 Chronic Diseases and Risk Factors Survey that was conducted by the Turkish Ministry of Health on a representative sample of the Turkish adult population aged 20 years or more (n=16.

Validity and Reliability Analysis of Knowledge of, Attitude toward and Practice of a Case-mix Questionnaire among Turkish Healthcare Providers.

This study was aimed to assess validation and reliability of knowledge of, attitude toward and practice (KAP) of a Case-mix and Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) system questionnaire. A sample of 238 health care providers selected conveniently from three public hospitals in Turkey was enrolled in a cross-sectional study from September 1 until November 30, 2012. The mean age was 38.