Background Equity, efficiency, sustainability, acceptability to clients and providers, and
quality are the cornerstones of universal health coverage (UHC). No country has a single …

Informal payments for healthcare are widely acknowledged as undercutting health care
access, but empirical research is somewhat limited. This article is a critical interpretive …

Background The “Coronavirus Disease 2019”(COVID-19) pandemic has become a major
challenge for all healthcare systems worldwide, and besides generating a high toll of …

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 …

Backing by strong political support of the government, Ministry of Health and Medical
Education (MoHME) launched a major and ambitious reform in Iran on May 5, 2014 entitled …

Background Different countries have set different policies to control and decrease the costs
of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Iran was aiming to reduce the economic burden of …

Following his inauguration in late 2013, President Rouhani aimed to boost quality and
equity in the health care delivery system. To fulfill this aim, a set of interventions, called …

Background In 2014, a revision of the national medical tariffs for inpatient health care
services took place in Iran, and a new hotline was set up to report informal payments. It was …

OBJECTIVES The health transformation program was a recent reform in the health system of
Iran that was implemented in early 2014. Some of the program's important goals were to …

Background: On May 5, 2014, the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education
launched the Health Transformation Plan (HTP) as a major healthcare reform to curb out-of …