Iranian health financing system: Challenges and opportunities

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 662-666

  Abolhallaje, Masoud ^a,b   Ramezanian, Maryam ^a,b   Abolhasani, Nazanin ^c   Zade, Hossein Salarian ^b   Hamidi, Hojat ^d   Bastani, Peivand ^a,c  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL EDUCATION   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Challenge; Financing; Health system; Opportunity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877827060     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2013.22.05.71247     Document Type: Article

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