Date: 7/7/2011
TUMSPR News: The first primary health care conference with an approach to family physician was held at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) on July 5, 2011.
The first primary health care conference with an approach to family physician organized by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) was held at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) on July 5, 2011.
The authorities attending the conference were Dr. Marzieh Vahid-dastjerdi, the Minister of Health, Dr. Bagher Larijani, TUMS Chancellor, and Eng. Alireza Firouzi, the vice-minister for Welfare and Dr. Ambrogio Manenty, the WHO Country Office representative in Iran.
In the beginning, the vice-minister for Health, Dr. Mesdaghini, referred to the implementation of district health centers, commonly called networks, as the most important happening in the state’s health system resulting in an improvement state of health in the country. He added that the health system network and the family physician program were two good happening in the state's health system.
He reminded that urban life and changing life styles were the problems on the way of family physician program which needed to be addressed adequately to make a success out of the program, otherwise the program was doomed to fail despite the collaboration of the two ministries of health and welfare. He counted the changes in the age pyramid, population growth and the changing face of diseases as other factors that influenced the situation.
Dr. Alireza Firouzi, the vice-minister for Welfare, added that family physician program had been started in three provinces a year ago by the support of two ministries but complained about the referral system that is vital to this program and it had been devised and included in the public insurance legislation in 1994 but it is still dysfunctional. He believed the family physician program needed to be speeded up by addressing the missing links and facilitating the referral process.
Dr. Mohammad Shariati, the acting vice-minister for Health said the problem lied in the health budget that did not get its due share from the gross domestic product and the allocated budget was not distributed and used equitably within the health system. He disapproved the way the insurance systems acted and said people were not satisfied with their performance. He said the resources were not used efficiently. He finally said that some good strategies had been thought of to address the problems and develop the family physician program in the country.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=25749
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