Publications by authors named "Ghasem Taheri"
Article Synopsis
- The study highlights the importance of sustainable health financing through taxation to ensure universal health coverage.
- It utilized qualitative methods, including interviews with experts and thematic analysis, to identify strategies for generating tax-based resources across various sectors.
- Implementing these tax policies will require political support, stakeholder collaboration, and improved transparency to effectively enhance health services, while also considering the economic impact on society.
Background: Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) has been reported in recent years in South Khorasan Province, a desert region of eastern Iran, where the main species is Leishmania tropica. Little is known of the influence of geography and climate on its distribution, and so this study was conducted to determine geo-climatic factors by using geographic information system.
Methods: The home addresses of patients with CL patients who were diagnosed and notified from 2009 to 2017 were retrieved from the provincial health center and registered on the village/town/city point layer.
Background: the health service tariff is an appropriate policymaking tool and the financial leverage of the health system control which affects quality, availability, cost, efficiency, equity and accountability of health services. Global surgeries include 91 common cases of general and specialized surgeries in hospitals; fixed tariffs are annually defined for these surgeries, and insurance companies must pay medical centers based on these tariffs. The aim of this study was to examine and compare hospital bills with global surgery tariffs at Hazrate Rasoole Akram Educational and Medical Center in 2017.
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