Abstract
According to the current legislation and article 89 of Iran’s Fourth Development Program (I4DP), the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) is responsible for the countrywide planning of health policies. Thus, MOHME with the help of all other organizations that have direct role in provision of health care (e.g. governmental health insurance companies) started to study and compile regulations of referral system and family physi-cian program, introduced later as the Iranian Na-tional Family Physician Program(IFPP).
Highlights
According to the current legislation and article 89 of Iran’s Fourth Development Program (I4DP), the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) is responsible for the countrywide planning of health policies.[1]
The initiative was put in practice in 2005 with the cooperation of the Ministry of Welfare and Social Support (MWSS) in rural areas as well as cities with population of less than 20,000.3 The program aimed to overcome barriers in achieving the objective set in the article 91 of I4DP
Provision of health care by family physicians at the first level of the Iranian Health System (IHS) was compromised to develop equity; certain deficiencies seem to exist in practice as follows: Health care in the IHS was disembarked at three levels for all: at the first level, services are provided by family physician or semi-professional health workers in the rural health units, called as "health houses", or rural/ urban health centers
Summary
According to the current legislation and article 89 of Iran’s Fourth Development Program (I4DP), the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) is responsible for the countrywide planning of health policies.[1]. In the case of passive health care provision, individuals’ access to the defined health services could depend on various factors including geographic location of the health center, weather and transportation facilities etc.
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