Date: 1/27/2008
Tehran University of Medical Sciences / Public Relations English News Service: The conference was a focal point for converging on foresighting and comprehensive scientific mapping in the health sector. The conference was held at Iran’s National Museum of History of Medical Sciences on December 13, 2007.
The conference was held to converge on a foresight and design a comprehensive scientific map of the country in the health sector.
In the conference, Dr. Lankarani, the Minister of Health and Medical Education, Dr. Larijani, the Tehran University of Medical Sciences’ Chancellor, the head of the ministry’s policy making council and the minister’s deputies were present.
The Minister of Health knew the Comprehensive Scientific Map of the country a way to materialize Iran’s 20-year vision plan. He said that formation of foresighting workgroups would enable us to benefit from the scientific knowledge of university faculties and our goal was to widen the boundaries to encompass the knowledge of all university faculties to achieve desirable results and follow the topics in a uniform way.
He stressed on a common language and a uniform policy in the universities under the Ministry of Health and Medical Education and hoped that by the help of these workgroups and the hard work that Dr. Larijani and deputes of education, research, etc have taken for the draft we could reach a common language for the designation of the comprehensive scientific map in the health sector.
He also added that for achieving the leader’s call for the goals of the 20-year vision plan, the results of these workgroups would be announced, the feedbacks would be given too and the next phase of the mapping would be started in April 2008.
Then, Dr. Larijani, TUMS` chancellor, welcomed the attendees and said that the objectives of holding the conference were to form a forecasting panel.
He said "Today we have formed 4 panels in educational, research, drugs and nanotechnology domains to advance the subjects in a common format”. He added that designing the plan would not be difficult if we make use of other countries experience.
Dr. Larijani said that Canada had designed the scientific map of the country for 2013, Japan and Croatia for 2010, and also Mongolia, Singapore, etc have designed the map and we should design a horizon for the science and technology of the country.
Then, he exemplified Japan and said it has had three four-year programs in science and technology which two of them have been accomplished and the 3rd will finish in 2010 and these three programs have resulted from their “Science and Technology Basic Law" which had been passed in 1995.
TUMS chancellor said that wisdom, liveliness, and a sophisticated society have been the three main ideas in Japan and we can employ these three principles for the production of wisdom and liveliness.
Then he explored the basic concepts and foundations of these ideas and said “Formation of human wisdom, increasing national capabilities, and protection of health and national security are the three main ideas which the six goals of our map originate from.
Dr. Larijani continued his speech by saying that In England, in a research they evaluated the 20-year prospects of foresighting in the health sector concerning their health system and improvised a comprehensive system of health services which would promote physical and psychological health and prevent diagnose and treat diseases as the objectives. Then they concluded that to achieve such a vision the whole system had to be renovated.
Professor Larijani also mentioned the provision of different scenarios for the realization of the 20-year vision plan of the country and said providing high quality services depends on the needs and demands of the society, growth and development of technology, and the characteristics and level of production of the workforce and there had not been absolute indicators of these three effectors, researchers developed three different scenarios. Therefore, we could exploit different scenarios for foresighting and priority setting.
Dr. Larijani continued his speech by saying that recognition of technological priorities involved in health and of the present status and the desired state dictated the evaluation of the requirements of the health system in the research and technology of the foresighting plan and priority setting in this domain.
Finally, he said the data, documents, definitions, etc related to the foresighting designation were available at http://www.medmap.ir/.
Dr. Madjdzadeh and Eng. Malekfar explained more details about the plan and then workshops on education, drugs, research and nanotechnology began.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=6124
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