Fail to prepare and you can prepare to fail: the experience of financing path changes in teaching hospitals in Iran

L Doshmangir, A Rashidian, M Jafari… - BMC health services …, 2016 - Springer
Background In 1995, teaching and public hospitals that are affiliated with the ministry of
health and medical education (MOHME) in Iran were granted financial self-sufficiency to …

Opening the black box: the experiences and lessons from the public hospitals autonomy policy in Iran

L Doshmangir, A Rashidian, M Jafari… - Archives of Iranian …, 2015 - journalaim.com
INTRODUCTION: Policy formulation and adoption often happen in a black box.
Implementation challenges affect and modify the nature of a policy. We analyzed hospitals' …

[HTML][HTML] Health care financing in iran; is privatization a good solution?

M Davari, A Haycox, T Walley - Iranian journal of public health, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: This paper considers a range of issues related to the financing of health care
system and relevant government policies in Iran. Methods: This study used mixed methods …

[HTML][HTML] The experience of implementing the board of trustees' policy in teaching hospitals in Iran: an example of health system decentralization

L Doshmangir, A Rashidian, H Ravaghi… - … journal of health …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: In 2004, the health system in Iran initiated an organizational reform aiming to
increase the autonomy of teaching hospitals and make them more decentralized. The policy …

[HTML][HTML] Effective factors and drivers of Iran's health care financing system

M Ramezanian, AA Haghdoost… - Medical journal of the …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Different factors affect Iran's health care financing system, and regardless of
this impact, the future of this system will face fundamental challenges. In this environment, a …

[HTML][HTML] The first stages of liberalization of public hospitals in Iran: establishment of autonomous hospitals and the barriers

N Markazi-Moghaddam, A Aryankhesal… - Iranian journal of …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Liberalization and decentralization of public sector has been triggered in some
developing countries and in Iran by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) …

Health system organizational reform in governing Iranian public hospitals: A content analysis to comprehend the barriers in Board of Trustees' hospitals

M Jafari, A Habibirad, A Pourtaleb… - … journal of health …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background Since the early 1990s, Iran has initiated structural and decentralization reforms
in the hospital system. This policy led to the formation of a Board of Trustees (BOTs) for the …

Financial challenges of teaching hospitals and providing solutions

S Safarani, H Ravaghi, P Raeissi… - Journal of education and …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A qualitative study was conducted using face-to-face
interviews with a purposeful sample of 37 top and middle managers in the level of the …

A scoping review of public hospitals autonomy in Iran: from budgetary hospitals to corporate hospitals

R Sohrabi, S Tourani, M Jafari, H Joudaki… - BMC Health Services …, 2021 - Springer
Background Organizational reforms of hospitals in Iran are mainly aimed at improving
efficiency, reducing government spending on health care, and improving the quality of …

Financing public healthcare institutions in Ghana

M Akosua Akortsu, P Aseweh Abor - Journal of health Organization …, 2011 - emerald.com
Purpose–The financing of healthcare services has been of a major concern to all
governments in the face of increasing healthcare costs. For developing countries, where …