Abstract

Identifying Factors Influencing the Establishment of a Health System Reform Plan in Iran's Public Hospitals

Author(s):Rasul Fani khiavi, Pouran Raeissi, Amir Ashkan Nasiripour and Seyed Jamaledin Tabibi

In today's world, health views have found a wider perspective in which non-medical expectations are particularly catered to. The health system reform plan seeks to improve society's health, decrease treatment costs, and increase patient satisfaction. This study investigated factors affecting the successful establishment of a health system reform plan. A mixed qualitative – quantitative approach was applied to conduct to explore influential factors associated with the establishment of a health system reform plan in Iran's public hospitals. The health systems and approaches to improving them in other countries have been studied. A Likert-based five-point questionnaire was the measurement instrument, and its content validity based on content validity ratio (CVR) was 0.87. The construct validity, calculated using the factorial analysis and Kaiser Mayer Olkin (KMO) techniques, was 0.964, which is a high level and suggests a correlation between the scale items. To complete the questionnaire, 185 experts, specialists, and executives of Iran’s health reform plan were selected using the Purposive Stratified Non Random Sampling and snowball methods. The data was then analyzed using exploratory factorial analysis and SPSS and LISREL software applications. The results of this research imply the existence of a pattern with a significant and direct relationship between the identified independent variables and the dependent variable of the establishment of a health system reform plan. The most important indices of establishing a health system reform plan, in the order of priority, were political support; suitable proportion and coverage of services presented in the society; management of resources; existence of necessary infrastructures; commitment of senior managers; constant planning, monitoring, and evaluation; and presentation of feedback to the plan's executives, intrasector/extrasector cooperation, and the plan’s guiding committee. Considering the indices, it can be argued that the presented models enjoyed good model fit and the desired correspondence existed between the depicted or constructed model and the experimental data. In other words, the above-named variables possess the necessary qualifications to be used in the form of a final research model.

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