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Universal Health Coverage in Iran: A Review of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats

BACKGROUND: Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide access to basic health services with no financial constraints. In Iran, the major challenges to the implementation of the UHC plan include aggregation and augmentation of resources, something which could threaten the dimension of population...

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Autores principales: Askarzade, Elahe, Nabizade, Zahra, Goharinezhad, Salime, Mostaghim, Somayeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10134088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37123342
http://dx.doi.org/10.47176/mjiri.37.6
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author Askarzade, Elahe
Nabizade, Zahra
Goharinezhad, Salime
Mostaghim, Somayeh
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description BACKGROUND: Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide access to basic health services with no financial constraints. In Iran, the major challenges to the implementation of the UHC plan include aggregation and augmentation of resources, something which could threaten the dimension of population coverage and health service delivery. Therefore, this study reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the internal environment as well as the opportunities and threats of the external environment in the UHC plan to help policymakers and decision-makers of the health system. METHODS: In this review study, reputable databases were searched for all the relevant papers on UHC to collect data. After that, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis was conducted to organize, collect, and analyze data. The SWOT analysis is a process that has 4 components and 2 dimensions. The 4 components are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. In fact, strengths and weaknesses are considered internal factors and organizational features, whereas opportunities and threats are considered external factors and environmental features. The listed items were then categorized for clarification and transparency within the framework of the 6 building blocks of the World Health Organization (WHO). RESULTS: The relevant studies were reviewed to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of internal environments as well as the opportunities and threats of external environments. The necessary points for better planning and policymaking were then presented. CONCLUSION: The success of Iran’s UHC plan can be guaranteed by regular capacity building, ongoing education, and empowerment of society in addition to improving intersectoral collaboration and acquiring political commitment to develop more effective and more accountable systems matching variable and dynamic health requirements.
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spelling pubmed-101340882023-04-28 Universal Health Coverage in Iran: A Review of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Askarzade, Elahe Nabizade, Zahra Goharinezhad, Salime Mostaghim, Somayeh Med J Islam Repub Iran Original Article BACKGROUND: Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide access to basic health services with no financial constraints. In Iran, the major challenges to the implementation of the UHC plan include aggregation and augmentation of resources, something which could threaten the dimension of population coverage and health service delivery. Therefore, this study reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the internal environment as well as the opportunities and threats of the external environment in the UHC plan to help policymakers and decision-makers of the health system. METHODS: In this review study, reputable databases were searched for all the relevant papers on UHC to collect data. After that, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis was conducted to organize, collect, and analyze data. The SWOT analysis is a process that has 4 components and 2 dimensions. The 4 components are strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. In fact, strengths and weaknesses are considered internal factors and organizational features, whereas opportunities and threats are considered external factors and environmental features. The listed items were then categorized for clarification and transparency within the framework of the 6 building blocks of the World Health Organization (WHO). RESULTS: The relevant studies were reviewed to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of internal environments as well as the opportunities and threats of external environments. The necessary points for better planning and policymaking were then presented. CONCLUSION: The success of Iran’s UHC plan can be guaranteed by regular capacity building, ongoing education, and empowerment of society in addition to improving intersectoral collaboration and acquiring political commitment to develop more effective and more accountable systems matching variable and dynamic health requirements. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2023-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10134088/ /pubmed/37123342 http://dx.doi.org/10.47176/mjiri.37.6 Text en © 2023 Iran University of Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 License (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.47176/mjiri.37.6
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