Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Disaster planning approaches in Iran’s health system: A mixed‑methods study

. Ali Mohajervatan; . Golrokh Atighechian; . Hamid Reza Khankeh; . Ahmad Reza Raeisi; . Nahid Tavakoli

Volume 12, Issue 8 , September 2022, , Pages 1-6

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BACKGROUND: Disaster planning and management pose a serious challenge to most countries.These challenges point to insufficient planning to deal with these events. Therefore, it is necessaryto ... Read More

Health‑care reform implementation challenges at suburban areas in Isfahan province: A qualitative study

. Nasrin Shaarbafchizadeh; . Zahra Fouladi; . Pejman Aqdak; . Ahmad Reza Raeisi

Volume 11, Issue 6 , July 2021, , Pages 1-11

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BACKGROUND: Health system reform plan in public health sector in Iran in the first phase focusedon improving primary health care in suburban areas in and around big cities. The present ... Read More

Developing and validating a checklist for accreditation in leadership and management of hospitals in Iran

. Hamid Jafari; . Ahmad Reza Raeisi; . Mohammad Hossein Yarmohammadian; . Mohammad Heidari; . Noureddin Niknam

Volume 8, Issue 10 , October 2018, , Pages 1-6

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INTRODUCTION: In the Iranian Accreditation System, leadership and management standards havebeen almost ignored and not paid enough and necessary attention to the structural componentsand ... Read More

Meta-evaluation of published studies on evaluation of health disaster preparedness exercises through a systematic review

. Hojjat Sheikhbardsiri; . Mohammad H Yarmohammadian; . Hamid Reza Khankeh; . Mahmoud Nekoei-Moghadam; . Ahmad Reza Raeisi

Volume 8, Issue 1 , January 2018, , Pages 1-10

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OBJECTIVE: Exercise evaluation is one of the most important steps and sometimes neglected indesigning and taking exercises, in this stage of exercise, it systematically identifying, ... Read More OBJECTIVE: Exercise evaluation is one of the most important steps and sometimes neglected indesigning and taking exercises, in this stage of exercise, it systematically identifying, gathering, andinterpreting related information to indicate how an exercise has fulfilled its objectives. The presentstudy aimed to assess the most important evaluation techniques applied in evaluating health exercisesfor emergencies and disasters.METHODS: This was meta-evaluation study through a systematic review. In this research, wesearched papers based on specific and relevant keywords in research databases including ISI webof science, PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, Ovid, ProQuest, Wiley, Google Scholar, and Persiandatabase such as ISC and SID. The search keywords and strategies are followed; “simulation,”“practice,” “drill,” “exercise,” “instrument,” “tool,” “questionnaire,” “ measurement,” “checklist,” “scale,”“test,” “inventory,” “battery,” “evaluation,” “assessment,” “appraisal,” “emergency,” “disaster,” “cricise,”“hazard,” “catastrophe,: “hospital”, “prehospital,” “health centers,” “treatment centers,” were used incombination with Boolean operators OR and AND.RESULTS: The research findings indicate that there are different techniques and methods for datacollection to evaluate performance exercises of health centers and affiliated organizations in disastersand emergencies including debriefing inventories, self‑report, questionnaire, interview, observation,shooting video, and photographing, electronic equipment which can be individually or collectivelyused depending on exercise objectives or purposes.CONCLUSION: Taking exercise in the health sector is one of the important steps in preparation andimplementation of disaster risk management programs. This study can be thus utilized to improvepreparedness of different sectors of health system according to the latest available evaluationtechniques and methods for better implementation of disaster exercise evaluation stages.

Performance evaluation of Al-Zahra academic medical center based on Iran balanced scorecard model

. Ahmad Reza Raeisi; . Mohammad Hossein Yarmohammadian; . Roghayeh Mohammadi Bakhsh; . Hamid Gangi

Volume 2, Issue 1 , March 2012, , Pages 1-7

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Background: Growth and development in any country’s national health system, without anefficient evaluation system, lacks the basic concepts and tools necessary for fulfilling ... Read More Background: Growth and development in any country’s national health system, without anefficient evaluation system, lacks the basic concepts and tools necessary for fulfilling thesystem’s goals. The balanced scorecard (BSC) is a technique widely used to measure theperformance of an organization. The basic core of the BSC is guided by the organization’svision and strategies, which are the bases for the formation of four perspectives of BSC. Thegoal of this research is the performance evaluation of Al-Zahra Academic Medical Center inIsfahan University of Medical Sciences, based on Iran BSC model. Materials and Methods:This is a combination (quantitative–qualitative) research which was done at Al-Zahra AcademicMedical Center in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2011. The research populationswere hospital managers at different levels. Sampling method was purposive sampling in whichthe key informed personnel participated in determining the performance indicators of hospitalas the BSC team members in focused discussion groups. After determining the conceptualelements in focused discussion groups, the performance objectives (targets) and indicatorsof hospital were determined and sorted in perspectives by the group discussion participants. Following that, the performance indicators were calculated by the experts according to thepredetermined objectives; then, the score of each indicator and the mean score of eachperspective were calculated. Results: Research findings included development of the organizational mission, vision, values, objectives, and strategies. The strategies agreed upon bythe participants in the focus discussion group included five strategies, which were customersatisfaction, continuous quality improvement, development of human resources, supportinginnovation, expansion of services and improving the productivity. Research participants alsoagreed upon four perspectives for the Al-Zahra hospital BSC. In the patients and communityperspective (customer), two objectives and three indicators were agreed upon, with a meanscore of 75.9%. In the internal process perspective, 4 objectives and 14 indicators were agreed upon, with a mean score of 79.37%. In the learning and growth perspective, four objectivesand eight indicators were agreed upon, with a mean score of 81.11%. Finally, in the financialperspective, two objectives and five indicators were agreed upon, with a mean score of 67.15%.Conclusion: One way to create demand for hospital services is performance evaluation bypaying close attention to all BSC perspectives, especially the non-financial perspectives suchas customers and internal processes perspectives. In this study, the BSC showed the differences in performance level of the organization in different perspectives, which would assist thehospital managers improve their performance indicators. The learning and growth perspectiveobtained the highest score, and the financial perspective obtained the least score. Since thelearning and growth perspective acts as a base for all other perspectives and they dependon it, hospitals must continuously improve the service processes and the quality of servicesby educating staff and updating their policies and procedures. This can increase customersatisfaction and productivity and finally improve the BSC in financial perspective.

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Author = . Ahmad Reza Raeisi

Disaster planning approaches in Iran’s health system: A mixed‑methods study

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Health‑care reform implementation challenges at suburban areas in Isfahan province: A qualitative study

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Developing and validating a checklist for accreditation in leadership and management of hospitals in Iran

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Meta-evaluation of published studies on evaluation of health disaster preparedness exercises through a systematic review

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Performance evaluation of Al-Zahra academic medical center based on Iran balanced scorecard model

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