Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Explaining the challenges of hospitals admitting COVID‑19 patients from the perspective of managers (a qualitative study)

. Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee; . Vahid Vatandoost; . Fatemeh Kokabi Saghi; . Elahe Daghighbin

Volume 12, Issue 9 , October 2022, , Pages 1-11

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BACKGROUND: Crises are often unavoidable events that occur around the world. Hospitals playan important role in treating patients and preventing extensive injuries in times of crisis, ... Read More BACKGROUND: Crises are often unavoidable events that occur around the world. Hospitals playan important role in treating patients and preventing extensive injuries in times of crisis, requiringadequate preparedness. In order to design a proper planning system, it is essential to be aware ofthe challenges of hospitals during a crisis. The purpose of this study was to explain the challengesof hospitals admitting COVID‑19 patients in the city of Mashhad, Iran, from the perspective of theirmanagers.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study employed a qualitative approach, using the method ofconventional content analysis and was conducted from May to July 2020. A purposive samplingmethod was used to recruit the senior managers of hospitals admitting COVID‑19 patients in Mashhad.The interviews were conducted face to face, with open‑ended questions following an interview guidebased on semi‑structured questions, and continued until data saturation was reached. Data wereanalyzed using Atlas Ti software.RESULTS: After the implementation of the interviews, first 665 initial codes were extracted fromthe data, and after removing the overlapping sequences, a total of 115 codes were obtained. Threecategories (organizational challenges, extra organizational challenges, and challenges related toinformation domain), 13 sub‑categories, and 33 codes were extracted from the content analysis ofthe interviews. The main themes propounded in the field of challenges of COVID‑19 referral hospitalsin Mashhad were organizational challenges, extra organizational challenges, and information domainchallenges.DISCUSSION: The results of this study showed that the hospitals admitting COVID‑19 patients inMashhad faced many challenges. To improve the quality of services in postcrisis phase, replacinghospitals’ equipment, revising curriculums at medical universities, staff retraining, recruiting skilledhuman resources, and creating a supportive community context are necessary.CONCLUSION: For sure, the COVID‑19 crisis will not be the last one, we have to be prepared forthe bigger health crisis.

Challenges to volunteers’ participation toward primary health‑care system and providing managerial solutions

. Mostafa Alimehr; . Asgar Aghaei Hashjin

Volume 11, Issue 7 , August 2021, , Pages 1-8

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BACKGROUND: The role of citizens’ participation in the process of social, economic, and culturaldevelopment is necessary. Institutionalizing this role is inevitable to identify ... Read More BACKGROUND: The role of citizens’ participation in the process of social, economic, and culturaldevelopment is necessary. Institutionalizing this role is inevitable to identify priorities and also planning,implementing, and evaluating health services. This study aimed to identify challenges ahead ofvolunteers’ participation toward primary health‑care (PHC) system and providing managerial solutions.MATERIALS AND METHOD: The study employed a qualitative research design. The data werecollected via semi‑structured interviews with key experts in the Ministry of Health, university educationand health promotion officials, education experts, health center staff, and health volunteers. Then,a focused group discussion method was employed to provide solutions. The participants wereselected via the purposive sampling method. The qualitative data were analyzed using a thematicanalysis method.RESULTS: The analyzed data were categorized into 6 main themes and 24 subthemes. The mostimportant challenges were categorized into six temporal, management, education, quality of services,motivation, and infrastructural themes. Allocating special funds for the health volunteer program,paying attention to the problems of the health workers, providing motivational programs, holdingregular retraining courses and providing educational software for health volunteers, holding regulartraining courses for health trainers and volunteers, and supporting the health volunteer program areamong the solutions.CONCLUSION: The present study showed that the health volunteer program in the PHC systemfaces several challenges, most of which are organizational and managerial ones. Therefore, amultifaceted approach should be used to improve the participation of health volunteers. In addition tomotivational factors, factors such as allocating proper resources, empowering trainers, and mobilizingthe community should be also considered. It seems that interaction among health system, people,and health volunteers should be improved.

Collaboration between the government and nongovernmental organizations in providing health‑care services: A systematic review of challenges

. Mohanna Rajabi; . Parvin Ebrahimi; . Aidin Aryankhesal

Volume 11, Issue 5 , June 2021, , Pages 1-9

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BACKGROUND: Given the expanding range of health influencing factors, increasing expectations fromthe health systems, and general challenges such as insufficient resources, the health ... Read More

The opportunities and challenges of using mobile health in elderly self‑care

. Masoumeh Shahbazi; . Hossein Bagherian; . Mohammad Sattari; . Sakineh Saghaeiannejad‑Isfahani

Volume 11, Issue 2 , February 2021, , Pages 1-9

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Population aging is a phenomenon expanding around the world and will be increase the incidenceof chronic diseases and health costs. This study was conducted according to the preferred ... Read More

Performance payment challenges for family physician program

. Bahram Delgoshaei; . Soudabeh Vatankhah; . Amin Sarabandi

Volume 10, Issue 8 , August 2020, , Pages 1-7

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CONTEXT: Payment mechanisms are one of the effective tools for achieving optimal results inhealth system. Pay for performance (P4P) is one of the best programs to enhance the quality ... Read More

The challenges of supporting nursing students in clinical education

. Seyedeh Roghayeh Jafarian-Amiri; . Ali Zabihi; . Mojtaba Qanbari Qalehsari

Volume 10, Issue 8 , August 2020, , Pages 1-6

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Clinical education requires creating a supportive atmosphere for learners and nursing students, whoneed support to be prepared for their future profession. The purpose of this study ... Read More

Early warning system‑related challenges in health sector: A qualitative content analysis study in Iran

. Seyed Hossein Hosseini; . Hamid Reza Khankeh; . Mehrdad Farrokhi; . Mohammad Ali Hosseini; . Pirhossein Koolivand; . Mohammad Raeiszadeh

Volume 10, Issue 2 , February 2020, , Pages 1-7

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CONTEXT: Iran’s health system has always faced many challenges in the field of disaster riskmanagement. The establishment of early warning systems in countries has been identified ... Read More

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Explaining the challenges of hospitals admitting COVID‑19 patients from the perspective of managers (a qualitative study)

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Challenges to volunteers’ participation toward primary health‑care system and providing managerial solutions

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Collaboration between the government and nongovernmental organizations in providing health‑care services: A systematic review of challenges

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The opportunities and challenges of using mobile health in elderly self‑care

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Performance payment challenges for family physician program

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The challenges of supporting nursing students in clinical education

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Early warning system‑related challenges in health sector: A qualitative content analysis study in Iran

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