Designing a Public-Private Partnership Model for Public Hospitals in Iran (original) (raw)

2016, International Journal of Hospital Research

Background and Objectives In many developing countries, the public sector has the major responsibility to develop the health system infrastructure, where the private sector plays a minor role due to factors such as high costs, long-run return on investment, weak financial power, and the lack of supportive laws and regulations. 1,2 Factors such as advancement of medical sciences and technology, development of new therapies, lifestyle and socio-cultural changes, population growth, and the change in the nature of required health services, has imposed increasingly higher health expenditures to the health system of many countries, including Iran. 3 Resent statistics has indicated that the expenditure of Iranian government on health accounts for over 15 of

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