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Haghdoost A A, Naghibzadeh-Tahami A, Dehnavieh R. Pathology of the Health Sector in Iran's Health System: A Future Oriented Viewpoint. JRUMS 2024; 23 (1) :76-87
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Pathology of the Health Sector in Iran's Health System: A Future Oriented Viewpoint
Ali Akbar Haghdoost , Ahmad Naghibzadeh-Tahami , Reza Dehnavieh
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The most crucial roles of the health deputy in the health system of the country include:
  1. The surveillance system is in charge of managing health data and displaying indicators, but there are serious concerns such as underestimation, segmentation problems, and drawback in the platforms.
  2. Providing primary health care services for all people using public funds, but it also suffers from barriers such as lack of effective communication with the secondary health care services.
  3. Health promotion plays a significant role in modifying people's lifestyle, but it is not given enough attention as a part of the healthcare system and generally, the responsible oragn in this domain is not obviously known.
  4. Public hygiene, which encompasses personal and transpersonal concerns, entails monitoring hygiene in the environment, work places, schools, and other similar sites. Today, there are actual concerns about air pollution, water, and food safety, and the hazards of large industries.
After exploring the functions mentioned above, it is important to update the system to meet future needs. This viewpoint may lead us to suggest the following: 1) Designing a comprehensive and integrated system for health service delivery at all levels to implement the family physician. 2) Creating separate sub-organizations to reduce the risk of conflict of interest in the healthcare system and allow the family physician to work more agilely: a) a center for disease control (CDC), b) a center for monitoring and evaluation, and validation, and c) division for health promotion and life style modification. 3) Fundamentally improving and updating databases and electronic platforms.
Keywords: Health sector, Challenges, Solutions, Future

Funding: None declared.
Conflict of interest: None declared.
Ethical considerations: Not applicable.
Authors’ contributions:
- Conceptualization: Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Reza Dehnavieh
- Methodology: Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Reza Dehnavieh
- Data collection: Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Ahmad Naghibzadeh-Tahami, Mohsen Barooni, Reza Dehnavieh
- Formal analysis: None declared.
- Supervision: Ali Akbar Haghdoost,
- Project administration: Ali Akbar Haghdoost,
- Writing - original draft: Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Ahmad Naghibzadeh-Tahami
  - Writing - review and editing: Reza Dehnavieh, Mohsen Barooni
 Citation: Haghdoost AA, Naghibzadeh-Tahami A, Barooni M, Dehnavieh R. Pathology of the Health Sector in Iran's Health System: A Future Oriented Viewpoint. J Rafsanjan Univ Med Sci 2024; 23 (1): 76-87. [Farsi]
 
Keywords: Health sector, Challenges, Solutions, Future
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Environmental Health
Received: 2023/11/12 | Accepted: 2023/11/19 | Published: 2023/11/19
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