From: Setting health care services tariffs in Iran: half a century quest for a window of opportunity
Category | Number | Main samples |
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a) Documents sources and charactristics | ||
 National Report, books, thesis, dessertation | 19 | Parliament’s Research Center reports, ‘Planning and Budget’ and ‘Health and Treatment’ Standing Committees reports, reports or books published by Social Security Organization Research Institute such as Reforms in Medical tariffs and 20-year setting medical tariffs in Iran, PhD or MSc thesis such as the effect of proposed changes of relative values of different specialists medical tariffs on payment weight of specialities and health system costs |
 Parliamentary Proceedings | 123 | Medical tariffs, medical services universal insurance, Hospital autonomy, hospital corporatization, Hospital self-sufficiency |
 Local Organizational websites | 21 | Parliament, Vice-presidency for Strategic Planning and Supervision, Medical Council, Medical Universities, Social Security Organization Research Institute, Major Public and Private hospitals, National centre for health insurance research |
 Acts, bills, proposals, bylaws and regulations, | 91 | The Organization and Duties of MoHME, Medical Services Universal Insurance, Rural Health Insurance, MoHME formation, Social Security, Public Financial Regulation, Hospital autonomy policy, First to Six Five-year Development Plans and related Acts, Reviewing system administration of hospital plan, Iran Medical Council formation, the Ministry of Welfare and Social Security, the Ministry of Cooperative, Labour and Social Welfare, Employee and contractual staff payment, Hospitals Boards of trustees, Health Transformation Plan, targeted subsidies plan |
 Academic literature | 68 | Papers published by the first seminar on assessing medical tariffs by Iran Medical Council, Papers published relevant to medical tariffs and related policies and reforms, mainly published in Farsi, English papers published in international journals |
 Others | 8 | Documents related to the working group as special representatives of the President on the duties of the government regarding health insurance |
b) Interviewee characteristics | ||
 Senior MoHME officials, senior management and planning organization deputies and officials, SSO officials, IMC senior policy makers, academic researchers, treatment deputy members |