Editor’s Welcome
Journal Title: Evidence Based Health Policy, Management & Economics - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The increasing adoption of policies, management, and economics’ knowledge in the health system has necessitated the need to provide related studies’ results to researchers and enthusiasts of this realm. In this regard, international journals play a major and key role in the process of recording, publishing, and promoting level of such researches. They also are required to pave the way for development of the relationship between researchers of policy making, management, and health economics. With God’s grace and efforts of my colleagues in Yazd Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Journal of Evidence Based Health Policy, Management & Economics has started publishing from March 2017. This journal’s aim is to publish the latest research achievements in the field of evidence-based policy making, management, and health economics. Journal of Evidence Based Health Policy, Management & Economics is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, and open access journal published by Health Policy Research Center, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. JEBHPME is intended to enhance communication among health system researchers, policy and decision makers, legislators, practitioners, educators, healthcare managers, administrators, students, and other allied health professionals in the research and healthcare delivery systems. The Journal publishes papers in all fields of Health Management, Health Policy, Health technology assessment, public health, comparative studies in the field of health, business communication in health care, and health Economic. Hereby, we invite all professors, researchers, students, and enthusiasts of policy making, management, and health economics to help us in achieving our target by sending their valuable manuscripts. We welcome constructive suggestions to improve the overall quality of the JEBHPME. Looking forward to see your comments and manuscripts.
Explaining Resource Allocation in Board of Trustees Hospitals: A Case Study of Afzalipour Medical Center in Kerman, Iran
Background: The main resources of health care are allocated to hospitals. However, resource bottlenecks are a challenge faced by health systems around the world, especially in developing countries such as Iran. Inefficie...
Developing Appropriate Indications for Prescriptions of Brain MRI using RAND Appropriateness Method
Background: Evidence Based Medicine can be define as the process of systematically finding, critically appraising, and using recently published researches as a basis for making decisions regarding individual patients.One...
Developing a Hospital Managerial Performance Assessment Tool in Iran
Background: Performance assessment tries to find the best, valid and cost-effective way of measuring performance and work satisfaction. There are several indicators for health systems performance evaluation which ignore...
Socioeconomic Inequality in Health Care Utilization: A Study of Service Utilization in Yazd, Iran
Background: Determining the inequality in health and the gap level among various socio-economic groups and factors affecting it were always concerns of most politicians and social scientists. This study investigated ineq...
Role of Think Tanks and Policy Analysis Institutes in Policy Making Process
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