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Inputs of Iranian health system reform plan from health sector managers and policy-makers’ points of view

CONTEXT: Health system reform plan refers to conducting some fundamental, systematic, and sustainable changes. AIMS: The aim of the present study was to evaluate different required inputs of Iran Health Transformation Plan from experts’ viewpoints. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: The data of this qualitative s...

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Autores principales: Yarmohammadian, Mohammad Hossein, Khorasani, Elahe, Darab, Mohsen Ghaffari, Etemadi, Manal, Mohammadi, Mahan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6225403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30505854
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_16_18
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author Yarmohammadian, Mohammad Hossein
Khorasani, Elahe
Darab, Mohsen Ghaffari
Etemadi, Manal
Mohammadi, Mahan
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Khorasani, Elahe
Darab, Mohsen Ghaffari
Etemadi, Manal
Mohammadi, Mahan
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description CONTEXT: Health system reform plan refers to conducting some fundamental, systematic, and sustainable changes. AIMS: The aim of the present study was to evaluate different required inputs of Iran Health Transformation Plan from experts’ viewpoints. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: The data of this qualitative study were collected using semi-structured interviews. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The purposive sampling method led to 18 participant selection and then they were interviewed. Interviewees were assured about confidentiality of information. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED: The thematic analysis method and MAXQDA software were employed for analyzing the data. RESULTS: There were 4 main themes and 35 subthemes extracted including management requirements for health development plan, human resources, information resources, and financial resources. Each theme had subthemes such as “resource allocation,” “development of required standards for human resources,” “human resources’ motivation,” “failures in IT infrastructures,” “hospital information management software,” “guidelines and instructions,” “costs controlling,” and “financing the plan”. CONCLUSIONS: Results of the present study put significant emphasis on the path of improving the effectiveness and efficacy of applying the discussed inputs, which can be a light for revising past policies and taking better future steps, it also can be a resource guide for policy-makers and managers of the health-care system.
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spelling pubmed-62254032018-11-30 Inputs of Iranian health system reform plan from health sector managers and policy-makers’ points of view Yarmohammadian, Mohammad Hossein Khorasani, Elahe Darab, Mohsen Ghaffari Etemadi, Manal Mohammadi, Mahan J Educ Health Promot Original Article CONTEXT: Health system reform plan refers to conducting some fundamental, systematic, and sustainable changes. AIMS: The aim of the present study was to evaluate different required inputs of Iran Health Transformation Plan from experts’ viewpoints. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: The data of this qualitative study were collected using semi-structured interviews. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The purposive sampling method led to 18 participant selection and then they were interviewed. Interviewees were assured about confidentiality of information. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED: The thematic analysis method and MAXQDA software were employed for analyzing the data. RESULTS: There were 4 main themes and 35 subthemes extracted including management requirements for health development plan, human resources, information resources, and financial resources. Each theme had subthemes such as “resource allocation,” “development of required standards for human resources,” “human resources’ motivation,” “failures in IT infrastructures,” “hospital information management software,” “guidelines and instructions,” “costs controlling,” and “financing the plan”. CONCLUSIONS: Results of the present study put significant emphasis on the path of improving the effectiveness and efficacy of applying the discussed inputs, which can be a light for revising past policies and taking better future steps, it also can be a resource guide for policy-makers and managers of the health-care system. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6225403/ /pubmed/30505854 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_16_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Education and Health Promotion http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Yarmohammadian, Mohammad Hossein
Khorasani, Elahe
Darab, Mohsen Ghaffari
Etemadi, Manal
Mohammadi, Mahan
Inputs of Iranian health system reform plan from health sector managers and policy-makers’ points of view
title Inputs of Iranian health system reform plan from health sector managers and policy-makers’ points of view
title_full Inputs of Iranian health system reform plan from health sector managers and policy-makers’ points of view
title_fullStr Inputs of Iranian health system reform plan from health sector managers and policy-makers’ points of view
title_full_unstemmed Inputs of Iranian health system reform plan from health sector managers and policy-makers’ points of view
title_short Inputs of Iranian health system reform plan from health sector managers and policy-makers’ points of view
title_sort inputs of iranian health system reform plan from health sector managers and policy-makers’ points of view
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6225403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30505854
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_16_18
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