Abstract
Background: One of the most important issues in the health system is to provide the necessary resources to present health services. To increase the role of charities and facilitate public participation in the treatment area and to develop hospital units, the cooperation between charity organizations and public hospitals must be highlighted. Objectives: This study aimed at identifying the type of contract for the transfer of health services to charities in the teaching hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran. Methods: This study was conducted in hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in 2019. The statistical population of the study consisted of 411 people, including managers, chiefs, and deputies, contracting experts, hospital social workers, managers and lawyers of the university, trustees, and managers, and charity experts. The research sample consisted of 330 people who were selected using a stratified random sampling method. SPSS version 18 and AMOS software were used to analyze the data. Results: By identifying the selection criteria of a charity to operate in the hospital, identifying the contract model, identifying the share of capital and current costs, and selecting the type of department in the contract with path coefficients of 0.78, 0.72, 0.68, 0.73, and 0.73, respectively, it can be ensured that the costs of an inpatient ward were supplied by the charity during the contract term. Conclusion: The study showed that the partnership contract model is the most appropriate type of contract in the transfer of health services to charities.
Highlights
One of the most important issues in the health system is to provide the necessary resources to present health services
Given the importance of public participation in health promotion and given that public assistance currently plays a significant role in improving public health services, especially at the level of university hospitals, it is necessary to increase the role of donors and facilitate the process of their participation in the field of treatment and welfare of patients and the development of hospital units to provide the necessary contexts for the establishment of a charity organization along with each of the government hospitals to support that hospital
Its data were collected from a series of references including databases, reference books, reports published by the World Health Organization (WHO), universities, research centers, lectures and articles presented at scientific conferences, articles published in the last ten years, valid quarterlies and publications, documents and information banks such as Medline, PubMed, Elsevier and other sites related to the Ministry of Health and Medical Education and other authorities, including governmental and non-governmental organizations and theses available at the National Library, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Islamic Azad University (Science and Research Branch) in Tehran, Iran during 2006-2019
Summary
One of the most important issues in the health system is to provide the necessary resources to present health services. Objectives: This study aimed at identifying the type of contract for the transfer of health services to charities in the teaching hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran. The position of health charities in the Ministry of Health should be specified.[2,4] Charitable organizations deal with the problems and needs of the target community as a specific plan
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