Being the second-largest country in the Middle East, Iran has a long history of civilisation
during which several dynasties have been overthrown and established and health-related …

Background The prevalence of diabetes has steadily increased in Iran from the time of the
first published nationally representative survey in 1999 and despite efforts and strategies to …

In 2014, a series of reforms, called as the Health Sector Evolution Plan (HSEP), was
launched in the health system of Iran in a stepwise process. HSEP was mainly based on the …

Background. The primary health care (PHC) network contributed considerably to improving
health outcomes in rural Iran. However, the health system suffers from inadequate …

Background: One of the objectives of the health transformation plan (HTP) in Iran is to
reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for inpatient services and eradicate informal …

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: We aimed to identify the indicators of healthcare fraud and abuse in general
physicians' drug prescription claims, and to identify a subset of general physicians that were …

Background Malnutrition is one of the main causes of death in children under 5 years of age
and one of the most common factors threatening children's life and health. Nutrition policy …

There are fragmentations in Iran's health insurance system. Multiple health insurance funds
exist, without adequate provisions for transfer or redistribution of cross subsidy among them …

Background Child mortality as one of the key Millennium Development Goals (MDG 4—to
reduce child mortality by two-thirds from 1990 to 2015), is included in the Sustainable …