Authors : Mehrban Hadi Peykani and Seyed Reza Ganji Pour
Abstract: In this study, we investigate health system policies and will finally provide a model for policymaking in this area. In many countries, the health sector is an important part of their economy. Some have likened the health sector to a sponge that absorbs vast quantities of national resourcesto pay to its employed staffand some believe that it is the driver of economy which drives innovation and investment in areas such as biomedical technologies or production and sale of pharmaceutical products or in the area of insuring a healthy population that is economically productive. The results show that current style of policymaking is based on a kind of pragmatism and ideology and evidences have no place in this style and evidences and their use are not among the values of policymakers. Policymaking is often based on personal preferences. However, sometimes there are disintegrations; so that, “when the policymaker needs some reasons and evidences, no evidence exists and when there is some evidence, this time he will refuse them or does not know about them or does not see them”. “In many cases, planning is not based on policies or strategy is not based on policy or it is not policy-oriented. Policy has not been institutionalized; sometimes there is no policy document and if it exists, it is not connected to the target chain”.
Mehrban Hadi Peykani and Seyed Reza Ganji Pour, 2016. Investigating Health System Policies and Providing a Policymaking Model. International Business Management, 10: 6607-6612.