Challenges of Implementing an Effective Primary Health Care Accreditation Program: a qualitative study in Iran.

Background: Accreditation is a prerequisite for scientific management of the health system, owing to its numerous benefits on health centres' performance. The current study examined Iran's primary healthcare accreditation program to ascertain the challenges to its successful implementation.

Methods: This qualitative study examined the perspectives of 32 managers and staff members in the pilot accreditation program (from the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, and Aradan District Health Network).

Catastrophic health expenditures in hospitalized patients with delta variant of COVID-19: A cross-sectional study.

Financial protection of populations against healthcare costs is one of the fundamental responsibilities of governments. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and it's affecting factors in hospitalized patients with delta variant of COVID-19. In this cross-sectional study, we included 400 hospitalized COVID-19 patients at Kosar Hospital of Semnan in 2022, using a researcher-made checklist.

The roles and functions of future hospitals in health promotion: A systematic review in Iran.

As a main pillar of the health and social welfare system, hospitals affect the public health status in two ways: (1) Prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services and (2) external effects on society and the environment. The present study aimed to identify the roles and functions of future hospitals in the world. The present study was a systematic review in which all studies about the roles and functions of future hospitals in different countries with a time limit of 2000 to August 2021 were extracted from foreign databases, including PubMed, Cochrane, Scopus, and Web of Science, and search engine, Google Scholar, as well as Persian databases, including Magiran, SID, and Iran Medex.

Future Development Through the Past: Pathology of the Financing Dimension of Iran's Health Transformation Plan.

Background: In Iran, during the years, the budgeting model used for healthcare funding is affected by factors such as global oil prices and fluctuation in the exchange rates. So, developing or continuing to implement a plan in the health system depends on the current and future global and local economic trends.

Objective: To analyze the future of the recent significant reform called Health Transformation Plan (HTP), started on June 15, 2014, in the light of potential financial barriers and challenges.

Seven Decades of Primary Healthcare during Various Development Plans in Iran: A Historical Review.

Objective: To explore historically primary healthcare (PHC) development in Iran in the light of development plans before and after the Islamic Revolution. The results of this study can be used to outline the future of PHC in the Iranian health system.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of the PHC development in the Iranian health system using data from relevant published and unpublished policy documents.

Policy analysis of the Iranian Health Transformation Plan in primary healthcare.

Background: Health systems reform is inevitable due to the never-ending changing nature of societal health needs and policy dynamism. Today, the Health Transformation Plan (HTP) remains the major tool to facilitate the achievements of universal health coverage (UHC) in Iran. It was initially implemented in hospital-based setting and later expanded to primary health care (PHC).

Using an Analytical Framework to Explain the Formation of Primary Health Care in Rural Iran in the 1980s.

Background: In the 1980s, PHC implementation promoted the health care delivery and overall health status of the population in Iran. Identifying the crucial design and implementation aspects of the PHC program can highlight the way it was implemented in a difficult sociopolitical environment. Using a policy analysis approach unfolds the details of implementation in a context which was not overtly convenient for a great health system reform.

Effects of Targeted Subsidies Policy on Health Behavior in Iranian Households: A Qualitative Study.

Background: This study aimed to explore the effects of national targeted subsidies policy on health behavior of Iranian households.

Methods: In this qualitative study, data were collected between January 2012 and December 2013 through face-to-face interviews (23 experts in national and provincial levels of health system and 18 household heads) and through a comprehensive and purposive document analysis. The data was analyzed using a thematic analysis method (inductive-deductive) and assisted by Atlas-ti software.