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

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 …

Background Households exposure to catastrophic health expenditure is a valuable measure
to monitor financial protection in health sector payments. The present study had two aims …

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) …

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 …

Background The process of medical tariffs setting in Iran remains to be a contentious issue
and is heavily criticized by many stakeholders. This paper explores the experience of setting …

Background The high reliance on out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for health financing in Iran
have been led to different inequity problems such as catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) …

Background Strategic purchasing in healthcare services is a key component in improving
health system performance, and it has been one of the most important issues in health …

Financial protection and equity in health spending are key health system goals of
governments worldwide. Financial protection means that people who pay out-of-pocket …