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Palliative Care Policy Analysis in Iran: A Conceptual Model
BACKGROUND: Palliative care programs are rapidly evolving for patients with life-threatening illnesses. Increased and earlier access for facilities is a subject of growing importance in health services, policy, and research. AIM: This study was conducted to explain stakeholders’ perceptions of the f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5801630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29440807 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_142_17 |
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author | Ansari, Mojgan Rassouli, Maryam Akbari, Mohhamad Esmaiel Abbaszadeh, Abbas Akbarisari, Ali |
author_facet | Ansari, Mojgan Rassouli, Maryam Akbari, Mohhamad Esmaiel Abbaszadeh, Abbas Akbarisari, Ali |
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description | BACKGROUND: Palliative care programs are rapidly evolving for patients with life-threatening illnesses. Increased and earlier access for facilities is a subject of growing importance in health services, policy, and research. AIM: This study was conducted to explain stakeholders’ perceptions of the factors affecting the design of such a palliative care system and its policy analysis. METHODOLOGY: Semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted following purposive sampling of the participants. Twenty-two participants were included in the study. The interviews were analyzed using qualitative-directed content analysis based on "policy analysis triangle" framework. RESULTS: The findings showed the impact of four categories, namely context (political, social, and structural feasibility), content (target setting), process (attracting stakeholder participation, the standardization of care, and education management), and actors (the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, health-care providers, and volunteers) in the analysis of the palliative care policies of Iran. CONCLUSION: In the past 6 years, attention to palliative care has increased significantly as a result of the National Cancer Research Network with the support of the Ministry of Health. The success of health system plan requires great attention to its aspects of social, political, and executive feasibility. Careful management by policymakers of different stakeholders is vital to ensure support for any national plan, but this is challenging to achieve. |
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spelling | pubmed-58016302018-02-13 Palliative Care Policy Analysis in Iran: A Conceptual Model Ansari, Mojgan Rassouli, Maryam Akbari, Mohhamad Esmaiel Abbaszadeh, Abbas Akbarisari, Ali Indian J Palliat Care Original Article BACKGROUND: Palliative care programs are rapidly evolving for patients with life-threatening illnesses. Increased and earlier access for facilities is a subject of growing importance in health services, policy, and research. AIM: This study was conducted to explain stakeholders’ perceptions of the factors affecting the design of such a palliative care system and its policy analysis. METHODOLOGY: Semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted following purposive sampling of the participants. Twenty-two participants were included in the study. The interviews were analyzed using qualitative-directed content analysis based on "policy analysis triangle" framework. RESULTS: The findings showed the impact of four categories, namely context (political, social, and structural feasibility), content (target setting), process (attracting stakeholder participation, the standardization of care, and education management), and actors (the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, health-care providers, and volunteers) in the analysis of the palliative care policies of Iran. CONCLUSION: In the past 6 years, attention to palliative care has increased significantly as a result of the National Cancer Research Network with the support of the Ministry of Health. The success of health system plan requires great attention to its aspects of social, political, and executive feasibility. Careful management by policymakers of different stakeholders is vital to ensure support for any national plan, but this is challenging to achieve. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5801630/ /pubmed/29440807 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_142_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Ansari, Mojgan Rassouli, Maryam Akbari, Mohhamad Esmaiel Abbaszadeh, Abbas Akbarisari, Ali Palliative Care Policy Analysis in Iran: A Conceptual Model |
title | Palliative Care Policy Analysis in Iran: A Conceptual Model |
title_full | Palliative Care Policy Analysis in Iran: A Conceptual Model |
title_fullStr | Palliative Care Policy Analysis in Iran: A Conceptual Model |
title_full_unstemmed | Palliative Care Policy Analysis in Iran: A Conceptual Model |
title_short | Palliative Care Policy Analysis in Iran: A Conceptual Model |
title_sort | palliative care policy analysis in iran: a conceptual model |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5801630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29440807 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_142_17 |
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