Health reform policy-making: Fiscal sustainability matters (The case of Iran’s PresidentCare)

Tohid Atashbar, Abbas Assari Arani, Joseph Antoun and Thomas Bossert

Journal of Policy Modeling, 2017, vol. 39, issue 6, 1086-1101

Abstract: The government of Iran has implemented a major health system reform program, called the Health Reform Plan (HRP). HRP covers a wide range of structural, policy, pricing, and tariff reforms in a wide range of health promotion programs, including reducing the share of payment made by patients hospitalizing in public hospitals, promoting natural childbirth, supporting the retention of physicians in underserved areas, and providing financial protection for incurable or needy patients.

Keywords: Reform policy; Health reform; Health Reform Plan in Iran; Fiscal sustainability; RouhaniCare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 C53 H39 H51 H75 I18 P41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2017.07.005

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