Iran's Experience of Health Cooperatives as a Public-Private Partnership Model in Primary Health Care: A Comparative Study in East Azerbaijan

• Main Authors: Mostafa Farahbakhsh (Author), Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani (Author), Alireza Nikniaz (Author), Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi (Author), Akram Zakeri (Author), Saber Azami (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 2012-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Iran started a new public-private partnership model in form of health coopera-tives which is somehow different from other types of health cooperatives throughout the world. In this study we compared the performance and quality of health services in public health cen-ters (PHCs) and coope...